Jean Baudrillard (Philosopher)

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

— Jean Baudrillard read

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

— Jean Baudrillard love

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

— Jean Baudrillard sex

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

— Jean Baudrillard you

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

— Jean Baudrillard love

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

— Jean Baudrillard love

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

— Jean Baudrillard death

The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

— Jean Baudrillard art

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

— Jean Baudrillard dreams

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

— Jean Baudrillard intelligence

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

— Jean Baudrillard true

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

— Jean Baudrillard identity

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

— Jean Baudrillard world

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

— Jean Baudrillard time

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

— Jean Baudrillard world

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

— Jean Baudrillard men

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

— Jean Baudrillard love

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

— Jean Baudrillard

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

— Jean Baudrillard lie

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

— Jean Baudrillard fear

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

— Jean Baudrillard women

Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

— Jean Baudrillard world

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. p. 30

— Jean Baudrillard life

This realistic image, however, does not catch at all what really is, but what should not be - death and misery - what should not exist, from our moral and humanistic point of view. And at the same time making an aesthetic and commercial, perfectly immoral use and abuse of this misery. Images that actually testify, behind their pretended objectivity, of a deep denial of the real, and of an equal denial of the image - assigned to present what does not even want to be represented, assigned to the rape of the real by burglary.

— Jean Baudrillard death

The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. — Ecclesiastes

— Jean Baudrillard truth

Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.The Precession of Simulcra, Ramses, or the Rosy-Colored Resurrection

— Jean Baudrillard past

If he is this good at acting crazy, its because he is. Nor is military psychology mistaken in this regard: in this sense, all crazy people simulate, and this lack of distinction is the worst kind of subversion. It is against this lack of distinction that classical reason armed itself in all its categories. But it is what today again outflanks them, submerging the principle of truth.The Precession of Simulcra

— Jean Baudrillard truth

One has never said better how much humanism, normality, quality of life were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

— Jean Baudrillard life

People no longer look at each other, but there are institutes for that. They no longer touch each other, but there is contactotherapy. They no longer walk, but they go jogging, etc. Everywhere one recycles lost faculties, or lost bodies, or lost sociality, or the lost taste for food.The Precession of Simulcra, The Hyperreal and the Imaginary

— Jean Baudrillard people

Take provocation, for instance, which is the opposite and the caricature of seduction. It says: I know that you want to be seduced, and I will seduce you. Nothing could be worse than betraying this secret rule. Nothing could be less seductive than a provocative smile or inciteful behaviour, since both presuppose that one cannot be seduced naturally and that one needs to be blackmailed into it, or through a declaration of intent: Let me seduce you p. 67

— Jean Baudrillard sin

The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. p. 43

— Jean Baudrillard sex

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesnt have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms Littré. Therefore, pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the true and the false, the real and the imaginary.The Precession of Simulcra, The Divine Irreference Of Images

— Jean Baudrillard reality

We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.

— Jean Baudrillard men

Yet there is a certain solitude like no other - that of the man preparing his meal in public on a wall, or on the hood of his car, or along a fence, alone. You see that all the time here. It is the saddest sight in the world. Sadder than destitution, sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honour of sharing or disputing each other’s food. He who eats alone is dead but not he who drinks alone. Why is this?.New York p. 15

— Jean Baudrillard time

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