5 Quotes by Foucault

Le voyage rajeunit les choses, et il vieillit le rapport à soi.

-Foucault

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    The great myth of the free gaze, which, in its fidelity to discovery receives the virtue to destroy; a purified purifying gaze; which freed from darkness, dissipates darkness.

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The great myth of the free gaze, which, in its fidelity to discovery receives the virtue to destroy; a purified purifying gaze; which freed from darkness, dissipates darkness.

-Foucault

Truth is a thing of this world.

-Foucault

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    To respect madness is not to interpret it as the involuntary and inevitable accident of disease, but to recognise this lower limit of human truth, a limit not accidental but essential.

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To respect madness is not to interpret it as the involuntary and inevitable accident of disease, but to recognise this lower limit of human truth, a limit not accidental but essential.

-Foucault

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    Der Mensch, von dem man uns spricht und zu dessen Befreiung man uns einlädt, ist bereits in sich das Resultat einer Unterwerfung, die viel tiefer ist als er.

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Der Mensch, von dem man uns spricht und zu dessen Befreiung man uns einlädt, ist bereits in sich das Resultat einer Unterwerfung, die viel tiefer ist als er.

-Foucault

 

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