“Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.” DoePhilosophyPoliticalOrderSilenceShareExampleTruth IsRelationErrorsProductionsTraditionalThemeConfessionAffinityPolitical History Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.” PeopleFirstsHardPhilosophyEvilDifficultSilenceTalkingProduceConversationDiseaseCuresRemedyInabilityTalkative Book:Plutarch's Complete Works Source: Plutarch's Complete Works