At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites;… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it:… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
![“Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3c4/michel-foucault-1134_black_perhaps-transgression-is-like-a-flash-of_366983.jpg)
