Meaningless Quote by Michel Foucault Download Open image “It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.” — Michel Foucault ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Meaningless Meaningless Speak Names Reason Reason Truth Speak Speak Reason Truth Knowledge
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard. — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about. — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and… — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak. — David Frum Copy Share Image
“A meaning without a cause or a purpose, is just another word without a meaning.” — Saleem Durrani Copy Share Image
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it:… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The only thing that belongs to us is our LIFE. Yet, we waste it in the pursuit of meaningless things that will never belong… — RVM Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“...anything I do is trivial and meaningless because I'm not in a relationship and I don't have children.” — Dolly Alderton Copy Share Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Within the grand scale of things, sitting in a classroom day after day is so utterly meaningless and pointless that it actually makes his… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image