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From Quotes by Michel Foucault
- In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
- It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching…
- Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a…
- Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a…
- I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
- Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated,…
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not…
- 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…
- Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are…
- The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice…
- A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes…
- Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its…
- You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you…
- From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as…
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