Hermaphroditism Quotes by Michel Foucault

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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…
• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
• Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
• It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
• The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
• In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
• People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
• Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
• I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
• I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
• What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
• 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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