Episteme Foucault Quotes

#1. In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice.

Michel Foucault

#2. Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.

Robin Hobb

#3. Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Ann Patchett

#4. It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Archibald MacLeish

#6. don't do d right things for the wrong reasons

Ikechukwu Joseph

#7. We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

Robert Grudin

#8. Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.

Marian Keyes

#9. Then he asked if I didn't like things changing. And I said I wouldn't mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

Mark Haddon