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Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984 QUOTES

Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984 QUOTES

1 " Curiosity is a vice that has been stigmatized in turn by Christianity, by philosophy, and even by a certain conception of science. Curiosity is seen as futility. However, I like the word; it suggests something quite different to me. It evokes “care”; it evokes the care one takes of what exists and what might exist; a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never immobilized before it; a readiness to find what surrounds us strange and odd; a certain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and to look at the same things in a different way; a passion for seizing what is happening now and what is disappearing; a lack of respect for the traditional hierarchies of what is important and fundamental. I dream of a new age of curiosity. "

― Michel Foucault , Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984