Michel Foucault Quotes

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

The dark is light enough.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

Dark with excessive bright.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -