Beats or God

"The man who is isolated–who is unable to share in the benefits of political association, or has no need to share because he is already self-sufficient–is no part of the polis and must therefore be either a beast or a god."

– Aristotle, Politics

"My problem is not to explore my self-consciousness to see if I am free or not: my problem is to analyze reality to see how one can free oneself."

– Michel Foucault