Michel Foucault Quotes

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

Michel Foucault

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• On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
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• Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Tough
  • Him
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• Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Great
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• I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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  • Sure

• You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • Yourself
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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• Well, I can't figure out God.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • Well
  • Out

• There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Book
  • History
  • Feeling

• I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Book
  • English
  • Green

• I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg

• There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Important
  • Love
  • Why

• If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Heart
  • Desire

• I don't think they packed it in. I just thought we played great defense. I thought we moved the ball incredibly well and got open shot after open shot.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Great
  • Think
  • Played

• Truth is stranger than fishin.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Truth
  • Stranger
  • Truth Is

• The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Police
  • Maoists

• Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Power
  • Madness
  • Halloween

• But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Artist
  • Honest
  • Consider

• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Circumstances
  • Madness
  • Nobility

• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Purpose
  • Mountain
  • Grow

• Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Madness
  • Vanity
  • Judgments