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Michel Foucault Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“I seek out in reflection those things that have never been thought or imagined.”
— Michel Foucault, Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual
Tagged: Inventing The World, Creating New Possibilities, New Ideas, newness, Innovation
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.”
— Michel Foucault, Religion and Culture
Tagged: Inquisition, Curiosity, Demand, Growth
“The idea of justice in itself is an idea which in effect has been invented and put to work in different types of societies as an instrument of a certain political and economic power or as a weapon against that power.”
— Michel Foucault, Human Nature: Justice versus Power
Tagged: Justice, Justice is Violence, Justice As A Power Apparatus
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
— Michel Foucault, Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth
Tagged: Personality, character, being somebody else
“Sometimes I fear that the young are so impressed with change and revolution, with the instrumental nature of political ideology, that they ignore what’s going on in the present.”
— Michel Foucault, A last interview with French philosopher Michel Foucault
Tagged: Romantic Notions of Revolution
“What I would like to grasp is the system of limits and exclusion which we practice without knowing it; I would like to make the cultural unconscious apparent.”
— Michel Foucault, Partisan Review Interview
Tagged: Understanding Where We Limit Things, Breaking Barriers, Bringing The Unconscious to the Forefront
“I try to analyze a real situation in its various complexities, with the goal of allowing refusal, and curiosity, and innovation.”
— Michel Foucault, Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual
Tagged: My Philosophy, The Great Game of Filters, Work Strategies, Game Thoughts, Conceptual Disruption, Quote of the Moment
“The student is put outside of society, on a campus. Furthermore he is excluded while being transmitted a knowledge traditional in nature, obsolete, 'academic' and not directly tied to the needs and problems of today.”
— Michel Foucault, Partisan Review Interview
Tagged: College, Higher Education, Campus As An Escape From Reality, Campuses of Conservatism
“Develop action, thought, and desires by proliferation, juxtaposition, and disjunction, and not by subdivision and pyramidal hierarchization.”
— Michel Foucault, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“There will always be those who rebel, who resist.”
— Michel Foucault, Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual
Tagged: The Night After The Revolution, Rebels
“The university is no doubt little different from those systems in so-called primitive societies in which the young men are kept outside the village during their adolescence, undergoing rituals of initiation which separate them and sever all contact between then: and real, active society”
— Michel Foucault, Partisan Review Interview
Tagged: College, Systems of Control, Higher Education
“The book often leads one to believe it is all fun and games, when something essential is taking place, something of extreme seriousness: the tracking down of all varieties of fascism, from the enormous ones that surround and crush us to the petty ones that constitute the tyrannical bitterness of our everyday lives.”
— Michel Foucault, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“The type of sex they want to know about is the vulgar type which sells their magazines and has nothing to do with the poetic sensibility, sensuality, the appreciation of bodily love, the family of emotions and attitudes one can follow from Greek times to the Victorian era, where interest in sexuality reached dramatic levels.”
— Michel Foucault, A last interview with French philosopher Michel Foucault
Tagged: Sexual Appetites, Restraint As Sexual
“Let’s change the game. Let’s say that the intellectuals will no longer have the role of saying what is good. Then it will be up to people themselves, basing their judgment on the various analyses of reality that are offered to them, to work or to behave spontaneously, so that they can define for themselves what is good for them.”
— Michel Foucault, Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual
Tagged: Localism, You Make Your Own Decisions, Create Your Own Way, Pave Your Own Way
“We must free ourselves from this cultural conservatism, as well as from political conservatism. We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it is good-and that is the real theater-to transcend them in the manner of play, by means of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair, to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put 'in play,' show up, transform and reverse the systems which quietly order us about.”
— Michel Foucault, Partisan Review Interview
Tagged: Against Conservatism, Play With Reality
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