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Michel Foucault has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…
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I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but…
— Steven Adler
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You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge…
— Graydon Carter
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Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick;…
— Thomas Browne
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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
— Alex Kapranos
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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
— Siri Hustvedt
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If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a…
— Ken Wilber
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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness.…
— Laozi
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
— Stephen Covey
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Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things…
— Frederick Lenz
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It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
— Andy Gilbert
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Being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses.
— Megan Boyle
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Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for…
— Demi Lovato
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