Foucault, Michel

"History is the ensemble of elements from which a new experience is fashioned."

"To marry someone is to accept them as they are, but to love them is to desire what they could become."

"The more one possesses the more one is possessed."

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

"I think that in all the countries around the world, people are waiting for someone to speak the truth."

"Dialogue and speech bring us together as human beings, not separates us."

"There are things that are known and things that are unknown and in between are the doors of perception."

"The goal of philosophy is to understand how knowledge is made possible."

"We must be willing to venture into new territories even if they make us uncomfortable."

"Society is a construct, a collective agreement to live in a certain way."

"The study of sexuality is the study of power."

"What is modern is that which is continually becoming something other than itself."

"One should always prefer revolt to subordination."

"The will to know is the will to power."

"I am surprised how people accept the most extraordinary truths if they come in the form of a novel."

"Art is the most resounding affirmation of life, the most passionate refutation of all negation of life."

"The past has a certain way of haunting the present."

"When you make love you're using four hands, four legs, your mouth and your brains, your heart. So if you don't have anybody to make love to, it's pretty awful."

"Do you think it is possible to live happily if you don't have any friends?"

"Writing does not consist simply of accepting the world as it is and then describing it. Writing is an act of transformation."

"Between a man and a woman there should be eternal war and battle."

"The right of revolt is as sacred as any right."

"What is an intellectual? Someone whose mind makes him feel obliged to speak the truth as he sees it."

"Life is not made for understanding. It is made for living."

"We should be suspicious of all those who would define us."

"The more you have the more you are occupied. The less you have the more free you are."

"Relationships are not the communication of information but the creation of intimacy."

"It would be my contention that the vast majority of people are unconsciously conditioned to be exactly as they are."

"Language is not what I am made of; I am made of silence that speaks."

"The further one advances in knowledge, the further one sees the limits of knowledge."