Madness and Civilization — Quotes
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Author: Michel Foucault Source: Goodreads
20 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Book page: foucault-madness-civilization
- “People know what they do; frequently they know…”
- “What desire can be contrary to nature since…”
- “Death as the destruction of all things no…”
- “Confined on the ship, from which there is…”
- “Self-attachment is the first sign of madness, but…”
- “Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau’s…”
- “Madness is the false punishment of a false…”
- “For the madness of men is a divine…”
- “And now, if we try to assign a…”
- “This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool…”
- “A symbolic unity formed by the languor of…”
- “Nervous sufferers are the most irritable, that is…”
- “Sadism… is a massive cultural fact that appeared…”
- “At the opposite pole to this nature of…”
- “Hermann Boerhaave still defined melancholia as merely ‘a…”
- “In the serene world of mental illness, modern…”
- “Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received…”
- “The marvellous logic of the mad which seems…”
- “All life was finally judged by this degree…”
Madness & Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Book page: foucault-madness-civilization