"It is meaningless to speak in the name……" — Michel Foucault
"It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge."
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Michel Foucault
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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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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack…
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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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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is…
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More Knowledge Quotes
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
— J. J. Abrams
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
— Aristotle
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
— Aristotle
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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Research is creating new knowledge.
— Neil Armstrong
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for,…
— Thomas Arnold
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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious…
— Chester A. Arthur
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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