Guy Debord Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 28, 1931 - November 30, 1994

Topics

ImprovementProgressWordsIdeas

You can stay true to yourself and your friends, you can do the right thing, you can do with your life whatever you want to. I think that's a lovely message.

Matthew Lewis

LifeYourselfDo The Right ThingYou

Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.

Angela Duckworth

RealityEarlyNeedWithoutFragile

Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There's a notion that if you think positively enough, you can make anything happen by using the power of your mind. All the positive thinking in the world won't deliver good fortune or prevent tragedy from striking.

Amy Morin

PositiveGoodPowerMindWorldYou

I really like Bioderma. I really like to wipe my face with it, like, every night.

Stella Maxwell

NightFaceLikeWipeEveryReally

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

Shooter Jennings

Video GamesComputersGenerationBorn

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Robert A. Heinlein

PowerStupidityUnderestimateNever

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

Rupert Sheldrake

FaithTruthScienceReligionThink

I get about seven hours of sleep a night.

Mirai Nagasu

SleepNightGetHoursSevenAbout

I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.

Josh Keaton

MorePresenceWellPhysicalYounger

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

Clive Barker

WorldThinkFeelAdvantageDeal

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

Brian Greene

TimeExperienceSpaceChallengesYou

I feel trapped in my body. I want to be like like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy,' when she unlocks everything within her - I want to do that. I want to be the alien in 'Arrival' - a spitty, infinite-time-loop creature.

Perfume Genius

FeelBodyAlienWantTrappedShe

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