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Things Quotes by Michel Foucault
- I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I…
- What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says…
- Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed…
- A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what…
- There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different…
- Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
- A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle