The French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard was popularly known for his study on postmodernism and his ideas of ‘Hyperreality’, ‘Sign value’ and ‘Simulacra and Simulation’. Jean Baudrillard was exposed to Pataphysics, a branch of philosophy in his early life that helped him become a philosopher. Bauldrillard was also a renowned photographer, sociologist, cultural theorist, political commentator, and a social critic who commentated and penned his views, ideas, thoughts and quotes on society. Apart from political and social topics, he had also written on AIDS, The Gulf War, and the 9/11 attacks on America. ‘The System of Objects’, ‘For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign’, and ‘The Consumer Society’ were his early works reflecting his ideologies. The same is reflected in his quotations and thoughts that are sure to motivate you and help you sail through rough times. As a competent translator, Baudrillard had worked on Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wilhelm Emil Muehlemann, Bertolt Brecht, Peter Weiss, and Ritik Goyal. Like Jean Baudrillard’s philosophy, his thoughts, sayings and quotes also aim on making life better for all, wherever there is room. Presenting a collection of Jean Baudrillard quotes.
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Jean Baudrillard
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Jean Baudrillard
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
Jean Baudrillard
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
Jean Baudrillard
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.
Jean Baudrillard
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
The neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.
Jean Baudrillard
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
Jean Baudrillard
All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave
All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.
Jean Baudrillard
The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point.
Jean Baudrillard
Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.
Jean Baudrillard
Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terrorist act, they are themselves terrorists, insofar as they themselves march to the tune of seduction.
Jean Baudrillard
It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.
Jean Baudrillard
It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.
It is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).
Jean Baudrillard
[deconstruction and other French theories] was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French theory.
There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.
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