"I don't feel that it is necessary to……" — Michel Foucault
"I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning."
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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault has 109 quotes on this site.
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of…
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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…
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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…
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in…
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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…
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of…
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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…
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