What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made. Michel Foucault More Quotes by Michel Foucault More Quotes From Michel Foucault Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. Michel Foucault truth philosophy death The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence. Michel Foucault madness language reason My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed. Michel Foucault roles moments people Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to very general and universal categories and formal structures. But thought is something other than societal relations. Michel Foucault men way thinking Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole. Michel Foucault conditions surveillance whole The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. Michel Foucault imagination book reality Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it. Michel Foucault support political littles There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect... What is philosophy today... if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think otherwise? Michel Foucault knowing philosophy thinking I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. Michel Foucault wall jobs window I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. Michel Foucault knows feels Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life? Michel Foucault lamps house art I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him – and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys. Michel Foucault smart stupid beautiful Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face. Michel Foucault who-i-am writing order Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital. Michel Foucault population names war Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse. Michel Foucault work men fall Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth. Michel Foucault chimera madness secret The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. Michel Foucault enlightenment discipline liberty One makes war to win, not because it's just. Michel Foucault winning war The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. Michel Foucault clothes intellectual facts 'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before. Michel Foucault prison house doors
