"The soul is the prison of the body." — Michel Foucault

The soul is the prison of the body. - Michel Foucault

"The soul is the prison of the body."

— Michel Foucault

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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of…
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack…
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on…
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one…
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in…
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who…
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of…
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us…
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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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