Michel Foucault on thinking

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

• Ideas

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

• Education
• Ideas

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius551–479 BC

• Education