“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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