Guy Debord Professions : Writer Born : December 28, 1931 Died : November 30, 1994 Browse All Authors Top 47 quotes by Guy Debord No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon. Guy Debord cutting tree order In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment. Guy Debord youth made civilization There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. Guy Debord hype deceit world I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink. Guy Debord drunk writing people Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink. Guy Debord small-numbers writing people 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 stars order people All that was once directly lived has become mere representation. Guy Debord lived once become representation Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors