“It is not the activity of the subject of knowledge that produces a corpus of knowledge, useful or resistant to power, but power-knowledge, the processes and struggles that transverse it and of which it is made up, that determines the forms and possible domains of knowledge.”
“Knowledge is power? No. Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful.”
“If Knowledge is Power: then Secret Knowledge is Secret Power.”
“Power contains secrets...Secrets contain knowledge...Knowledge contains power.”
“A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.”
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge.”