Michel Foucault Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

• There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

  Michel Foucault

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

  "Michel Foucault". Book by Didier Eribon translated by Betsy Wind, 1989.

• I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Writing, Finals

• I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.

  Michel Foucault

  Love, Book, Writing

  "Truth, Power, Self". Interview with Rux Martin (October 25, 1982) as quoted in "Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault", book edited by ‎Luther H. Martin,‎ Huck Gutman and‎ Patrick H. Hutton, January 7, 1988.

• The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Reality, Imagination

  Michel Foucault (1998). “Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology”, p.106, The New Press

• We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.

  Michel Foucault

  Struggle, Book, Ideas

  "Michel Foucault". Book by Didier Eribon translated by Betsy Wind, 1989.

• [Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.

  Michel Foucault

  Morning, Book, Writing

• If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Differences, People

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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