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Unreason is in the same relat...

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

[T]ruly to escape Hegel invol...

[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

It is over life, throughout i...

It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

Madness designates the equino...

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

Confession frees, but power r...

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

To work is to undertake to th...

To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

Because they claim to be conc...

Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

There is no binary division t...

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

We demand that sex speak the ...

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.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

In the Renaissance, madness w...

In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

One should try to locate powe...

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

In actual fact. The manifold ...

In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

Why should the lamp or the hou...

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

The best moment of love is whe...

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

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My point is not that everythin...

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

A critique is not a matter of ...

A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

Do not use thought to ground a...

Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

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Do not ask who I am and do not...

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

The language of psychiatry is ...

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness

Michel Foucault 181 quotes

Psychoanalysis can unravel som...

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

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