Burak

“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.”
― Michel Foucault, Tecnologías del yo y otros textos afines

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
― Pietro Aretino

“My role-and that is too emphatic a word-is to show people that they arc much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed. To change something in the minds of people-that's the role of an intellectual.”
― Michel Foucault, Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault