"The soul is the effect and instrument of……" — Michel Foucault
"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
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 Anatomy Quotes
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
— Erma Bombeck
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of…
— Benjamin Carson
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In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had…
— Sydney Brenner
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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence…
— Carl Sagan
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the…
— Claude Bernard
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
— John Dryden
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
— Charles Lyell
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time…
— Thomas Huxley
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