Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
They're done by guys who have talked a good game and then have scrambled together the simulacrum of a drama, so actors… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“This ‘reality’ is so obviously unreal. It’s like bad screenplay writing. No matter how many times you see the same tired script… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake. — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“It appears now to be universally admitted that, before the exile, the Israelites had no belief in rewards and punishments after death,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Because of the irresistible nature of our own Imagos, I think the replication of it in music is a siren song -… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because… — David Foster Copy Share Image
Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life. — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
