Jean Baudrillard Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Love

• There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Topics in Life

• 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

  Topics in Death

• You are born modern, you do not become so.

  Jean Baudrillard

• What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

  Jean Baudrillard

• What is a society without a heroic dimension?

  Jean Baudrillard

• We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

• 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

• There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

  Jean Baudrillard

• There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

  Jean Baudrillard

• 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

• 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

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

  Jean Baudrillard

• 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

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

  Jean Baudrillard

• 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

• 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

• Seduction is always more singular and sublime than s*x and it commands the higher price.

  Jean Baudrillard

• Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

  Jean Baudrillard

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

  Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard (34)

Birth:	27th July, 1929
Death:	6th March, 2007
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher, Sociologist

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Jean Baudrillard was born in Reims, France. He was a French philosopher and sociologist. He wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, gender relations, economics, social history, art, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his best known works are Simulacra and Simulation, America, and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.

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