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Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

Michel Foucault
Truth, Science, Errors
"The History of Sexuality, Volume I: The Will to Knowledge". Book by Michel Foucault, 1978.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

Michel Foucault
Knowledge, Science, Essentials
Michel Foucault (1987). “Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie”, p.73, Univ of California Press

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

Michel Foucault
Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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