"The work of an intellectual is not to……" — Michel Foucault
"The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play)."
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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault
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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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Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical…
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The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible...
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The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated…
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The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what…
— Brian Greene
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It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead
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There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is…
— Gene Sharp
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Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the…
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He who analyses blitz is stupid.
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If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail…
— Etienne Gilson
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A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no…
— S. S. Van Dine
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I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that…
— James A. Michener
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I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't…
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