"We demand that sex speak the truth and……" — Michel Foucault
"We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness."
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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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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were…
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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them:…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth…
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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
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Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings…
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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom,…
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