Michel Foucault Quotes

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.

Michel Foucault

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984

Topics

WorkTruthTimeArtMomentMadness

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

HappinessWisdomWayOurDepends

With more and more stress from work, at times I really do hope to have someone I can lean upon.

Song Hye-kyo

WorkHopeStressSomeoneI CanMore

I completely agree that a sound sleep is the best beauty product. Sound sleep, one of the most important but underrated thing, helps to make you more beautiful. I can never understand how people work so hard that they miss out on their sleep.

Shraddha Kapoor

WorkBeautyBeautifulBestSleep

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

Topher Grace

HomeLiveBestChildhoodFeelStill

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

Tommy Lee Jones

HistoryGreatPeopleNot Perfect

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

Tony Abbott

I AmSocietyAustraliaImmigrantAm

If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.

Tony Campolo

EducationBestMoneyJobNameDoing

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

Ron Wyden

ServiceSacrificeExtraordinaryGuard

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

Mike Rogers

TimeIntelligenceThinkDecisions

Vice President Biden is the real deal. He'll give it to you straight. He communicates in a way that I think connects with people at a real level.

Michael Nutter

PeopleThinkYouWayPresidentReal

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

Michael Sheen

LookingMoreWouldLikeTaller

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Moliere

CourageWellPietyPretenders

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