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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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The grammarians are arguing.
— Horace
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Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
— Herman Melville
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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…
— Michel Foucault
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Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
— Horace
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Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are…
— Herbert Simon
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Caesar is not above the grammarians.
— Tiberius
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Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
— Remy de Gourmont
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The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do…
— H. L. Mencken
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When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians…
— Nizar Qabbani
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