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Guy Debord Inspirational Quotes (26)
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What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.
Guy Debord
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
Guy Debord
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
Guy Debord
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.
Guy Debord
Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write but I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
Guy Debord
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
Guy Debord
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
Guy Debord
As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.
Guy Debord
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
Guy Debord
I have written much less than most people who write I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
Guy Debord
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
Guy Debord
None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
Guy Debord
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Guy Debord
In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
Guy Debord
In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.
Guy Debord
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
Guy Debord
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Guy Debord
Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it
Guy Debord
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
Guy Debord
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
Guy Debord
The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
Guy Debord
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
Guy Debord
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