Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot.
Michel FoucaultThere is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.
Michel FoucaultTruth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
Michel Foucault'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.
Michel FoucaultMadness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Michel FoucaultThe real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
Michel Foucault