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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
Tags: philosophy, critical-theory

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
— Guy Debord
Tags: periods, beliefs, useful, ignorance
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
Tags: ideas, improvement, progress, words
As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.
— Guy Debord
Tags: live, people, stars, life
Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire.
— Guy Debord
Tags: society, philosophy
Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.
— Guy Debord
Tags: society, philosophy
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