Michel Foucault Quotes

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Michel Foucault

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• You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!

  

  Natalie Morales
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Europe

• The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Run
  • Spoiled

• As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Black

• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Chance

• Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Love
  • Better
  • Dreamed

• Everyone happens for a reason, learn it and move on. Don't be bitter about what happened, be happy about what will

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Happy
  • Bitter

• You don't use mayonnaise, why? ... Are you addicted to mayonnaise? Is it okay if I use mayonnaise? I could go outside.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Okay
  • Mayonnaise

• I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

  

  Plato
  • Rest
  • Arguments
  • Socrates

• Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Try
  • Slave

• Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Money
  • Dangerous
  • Servant

• When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.

  

  William Harvey
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Book

• All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

  

  William Halsey
  • Success
  • Action
  • Problem

• I like patterns, anything fun. I think as we get older, we tend to get boring with our clothes.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Clothes
  • Anything
  • Patterns

• I'm addicted to Jack's Wife Freda, a South African - Jewish-inspired restaurant founded by my brother Dean and his amazing wife, Maya. The vibe is cool and relaxed, perfect for a daytime bite or a nightcap. I always get the Peri-Peri chicken and the kale Greek salad, but all the food is delicious. You simply cannot go wrong!

  

  Kara Janx
  • Perfect
  • Restaurants
  • South

• And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • World
  • Said
  • Impossible

• Everything is self-evident.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Self-evident

• It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Powerful
  • Invention
  • Domain

• As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Invention
  • Archeology
  • Nearing