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— Guy Debord Panegyric (1989)

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The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.

Society of the Spectacle (1967)

The spectacle manifests itself as an enormous positivity, out of reach and beyond dispute. All it says is: "Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear."

Society of the Spectacle (1967)

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

The Incomplete Works of the Situationist International (1963)

Philosophy is at once the power of alienated thought and the thought of alienated power, and as such it has never been able to emancipate itself from theology.

Society of the Spectacle (1967)

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, byproduct of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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