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 don't use mayonnaise, why? ... Are you addicted to mayonnaise? Is it okay if I use mayonnaise? I could go outside.
Jim Gaffigan
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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
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
Mike Tyson
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
Francis Bacon
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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
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All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
William Halsey
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A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.
Hank Williams III
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The father threw up on the ground. In the vomit, there were errors--strings not vomit, but language, light. The bunched up bits were writing something, words at once sunk into the ground.
Blake Butler
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I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.
Melissa Pritchard
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Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.
Tom Stoppard
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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Nikola Tesla
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Michel Foucault
