"Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for…" — Michel Foucault
"Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting."
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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 Cutting Quotes
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Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
— Antonin Artaud
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
— Isaac Asimov
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political…
— Margaret Atwood
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Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
— Joe Baca
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Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.
— Michele Bachmann
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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you…
— Michele Bachmann
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'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think…
— Christian Bale
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
— Honore de Balzac
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
— Iain Banks
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or…
— Bernard Baruch
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