"But let there be no misunderstanding: it is……" — Michel Foucault
"But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body."
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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the…
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
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