"Knowledge is not for knowing…" — Michel Foucault

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知識は知るためのものではなく、切るためのものである

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Translations

“My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous”

Michel Foucault

“Madness, in its wild state, howled there”

“Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting”

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