Michel Foucault Quotes

Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.

Harbor no secrets - they create dark places in the psyche.

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.