Quotes 21 till 40 of 92.
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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
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I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.
(2015) -
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
De slinger van Foucault (2007) 104 -
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
(2011) -
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60 -
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
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In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
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It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.
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Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
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