Guy Debord Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
Guy Debord quotes that inspire a great attitude towards life That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
1. Dont tout «avoir» effectif doit tirer son prestige immédiat et sa fonction dernière.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
2. He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
3. 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.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
4. Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur œuvre.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
5. Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
6. In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
7. Le but n'est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d'autre qu'à lui-même.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
8. Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
9. Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
10. Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
11. On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
12. Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.
The Society of the Spectacle
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
13. The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.
The Society of the Spectacle
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
14. The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
The Society of the Spectacle
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
15. The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.
The Society of the Spectacle
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
16. 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.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
17. Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Author:- Guy Debord
Category:- philosophy
