“It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form.”
Quote by Michel Foucault
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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