Quote by Roland Barthes Download Open image ““Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.”” — Roland Barthes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But it is the main question at the moment: which side one’s on—obscurantism or Order.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“To instil into the Established Order the complacent portrayal of its drawbacks has nowadays become a paradoxical but incontrovertible means of exalting it.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“But yet with all this, although, of course, one may admit this, that and the other, may even... and after all, where aren't there… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Don't criticise the; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There is no room for reverence in a mind fettered with ceaseless query.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects have done… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
