Jean Baudrillard Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Animal, Perfect, One Day

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.84, Verso

• 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.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Long, Innocence, Language

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.66, Verso

• If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.153, Verso

• Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Language, Theory, Floats

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.24, University of Michigan Press

• The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Silence, Humanity

• If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.223, Stanford University Press

• Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Art, Language, Kind

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