"He will essentially follow the language of the……" — Guy Debord
"He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with."
—
Guy Debord
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
38 Quotes by Guy Debord
Guy Debord has 38 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
-
The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
-
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish…
-
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to…
-
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
-
What appears is good; what is good appears.
-
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead…
-
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved…
-
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics,…
-
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe…
-
What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is…
-
Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly…
See all 38 quotes by Guy Debord »
More Essentially Quotes
This quote is filed under Essentially Quotes,
one of 973 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
— Aristotle
-
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was…
— Karen Armstrong
-
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
-
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's…
— Margaret Atwood
-
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
-
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
-
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
— Honore de Balzac
-
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
-
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
— Bela Bartok
-
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
— Ezra Taft Benson
-
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is…
— John Berger
-
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a…
— Ben Bernanke
See all 973 Essentially Quotes »