Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.
Philosophers
Tralalero Tralalá
One of the most influential French philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault exposed how power and knowledge are inextricably entangled. Through works including Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The Order of Things, he fundamentally challenged the mechanisms by which modern society manages and disciplines human beings. His archaeological and genealogical methods reshaped the study of power across the humanities.
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Tralalero Tralalá's Other Quotes
Where there is power, there is resistance.
Visibility is a trap.
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
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.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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