"It's not a matter of emancipating truth from……" — Michel Foucault
"It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time"
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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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If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that…
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress…
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not…
— Christopher Cokinos
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The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature,…
— Baron d'Holbach
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The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.
— Gustave Le Bon
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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers,…
— John Donne
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The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also…
— Vasily Grossman
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One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
— Janos Bolyai
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable,…
— Leslie Stephen
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Nature is only another chimera.
— Julien Torma
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Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from…
— Alex Tabarrok
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I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.
— Adolf Hitler
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This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella…
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