top of page
More

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
Author Name
Personal Development

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Knowledge is intellectual art."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Knowledge is life."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
Author Name
Personal Development

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."
Thought

"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."
Society

"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
Society

"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost."
Age

"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."
Power

"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."
Life

"Madness 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."
Art

"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
Love

"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
Power

"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
Authority
bottom of page