- Knowledge is not made for understanding, it is made for cutting.
- I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
- If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
- The first task of the doctor is, political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government.” Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.
- Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
- The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.
- Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
- One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.
- Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
- Truth is not by nature free – nor error servile – but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
10 inspirational michel foucault quotes on success
