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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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An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
— William S. Burroughs
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better…
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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
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Finally I am becoming stupider no more.
— Paul Erdos
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
— E. M. Forster
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
— Bette Midler
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Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There…
— Joe Abercrombie
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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…
— Michel Foucault
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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
— Anton Chekhov
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There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to…
— Unknown Author
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It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and…
— Anton Chekhov
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You are all perfectly correct in your implications that we would be safer if we stayed home in our rooms...But we would…
— Chris Raschka
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