One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of thought there is a path, a lane - maybe very narrow - which is the path of the historian of thought.

Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

The soul is the prison of the body.

...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.