Michel Foucault Quotes

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

Michel Foucault

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Work
  • Long
  • Know

• Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Hard
  • Word
  • Worked

• When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Always
  • See
  • London

• I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Myself
  • Care

• 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

• It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Use

• 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

• 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 hope to continue the great tradition that you have created for us in this state of leadership in Albany.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Leadership

• Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery
  • Confess
  • Political Evil

• I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • System
  • Glad
  • Laborer

• The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Stock
  • Invest

• How can you hide from what never goes away?

  

  Heraclitus
  • Never
  • Hide
  • Goes Away

• It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Perception
  • Possible
  • Senses

• It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Judgments
  • Old Man
  • Inspirations

• The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural world. And there's definitely been a push to sort of study advanced math and kind of reawaken the love of advanced math.

  

  Anya Kamenetz
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Mathematics

• Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Earth
  • Opportunity
  • Fear

• I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

  

  Cammie McGovern
  • Friends
  • Choices
  • Learned

• Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

  

  Michael Reagan
  • Winning
  • Senators
  • Pennsylvania

• Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Madness
  • Explain
  • Psychoanalysis