Michel Foucault

STATUS QUOtes — 20241004

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.” — Roscoe Pound

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” — Voltaire

“The fish never discovers that it lives in the water. In fact, since he lives immersed in it, his life goes by without noticing its existence. Similarly, behavior that is normalized in a dominant cultural setting becomes invisible.” — Michel Foucault

“I can’t understand it. I can’t even understand the people who can understand it.” — Queen Juliana of the Netherlands

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20201215

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.” — Juliette Gordon Low

“This – this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl’s voice … a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.” — Louis L’Amour

“I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.” — Michel Foucault

“A man consumes the time you make him wait in thinking of your faults – so don’t be late!” — Arthur Guiterman

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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