Michel Foucault Quotes

The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its self-evidence; it indicates itself, constructs itself, only on the basis of a complex field of discourse.

Michel Foucault

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

UnityBookQuestionsHandsWithin

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

Joe E. Lewis

TiredMeDoctorDietGoKnow

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

HappyPerfectBecomeFirstMeans

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

TimeSurpriseYouDaysWhereGet

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Robert Kiyosaki

ChildrenMoneyWarCareTake Care

The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.

Robert Lepage

WorldRingFirstAboutMythological

Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

HappinessSoulJoyWealth

When I'm back home, I try to do as little as possible because I want to take time with my family. That's the most important thing.

Stan Wawrinka

FamilyHomeTimeBackWantPossible

You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.

Tom Irwin

CharacterRealityTryingYouPage

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Robertson Davies

PeopleGeniusSomeoneOffendedSee

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

AcceptanceMessengerMustMessage

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

Doug Liman

MyselfWeirdFilmmakingIntellectual

God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.

Delilah

GodPeopleKeyYouKnowSome People

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