If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.
Michel FoucaultI don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
Michel FoucaultFrom 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.
Michel FoucaultMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.
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 Foucault