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Guy Debord (Philosopher)

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 art
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
— Guy Debord choice
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
— Guy Debord love
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
— Guy Debord evolution
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
— Guy Debord men
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
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
— Guy Debord belief
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 life
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.
— Guy Debord life
All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.
— Guy Debord live
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an authors phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
— Guy Debord art
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.Vol. 1, Pt. 2.
— Guy Debord education
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 knowledge
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 self
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 history

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