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
  • Chance
  • Thought

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

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Love
  • Better
  • Dreamed

• To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Good
  • May
  • Future

• 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

• The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Political
  • Happiness
  • Security

• Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.

  

  Menachem Begin
  • Children
  • Family
  • Mother

• I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.

  

  Richard Lester
  • People
  • Television
  • Because

• 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