Quotes by Foucault, Michel

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotis >>

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a >>

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the const >>

Quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals

Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, >>

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. >>

It's good to be clever, but not to show it. >>

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Foucault, Michel