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Michel Foucault Quotes about Philosophy

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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Michel Foucault
Life, Philosophy, People

There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect... What is philosophy today... if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think otherwise?

Michel Foucault
Philosophy, Thinking, Knowing
"Discipline and Punish". Book by Michel Foucault, 1977.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Michel Foucault
Death, Truth, Philosophy
Michel Foucault (2012). “The Birth of the Clinic”, p.211, Routledge

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

Michel Foucault
Philosophy, Errors, Order
Michel Foucault (1990). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, Vintage

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