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Michel Foucault Quotes: It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
         

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.


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Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.



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From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.



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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.



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