The History of Sexuality, Volume 3 Quotes

“Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self

“Artemidoro, en todo caso, ha hecho algo muy diferente que compilar los ejemplos más célebres de los presagios oníricos confirmados por la realidad. Ha emprendido la tarea de escribir una obra de método, y esto en dos sentidos: deberá ser un manual utilizable en la práctica cotidiana y deberá ser, también, un tratado de alcance teórico sobre la validez de los procedimientos interpretativos.”
― Michel Foucault, Historia de la sexualidad 3. La inquietud de sí

“The basic attitude that one must have toward political activ­ity was related to the general principle that whatever one is, it is not owing to the rank one holds, to the responsibility one exercises, to the position in which one finds oneself-above or beneath other people. What one is, and what one needs to devote one's attention to as to an ultimate purpose, is the expression of a principle that is singular in its manifestation within each person, but universal by the form it assumes in everyone, and collective by the community bond it establishes between individuals. Such is, at least for the Stoics, human reason as a divine principle present in all of us.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self