Quote by Jean Baudrillard
You are born modern, you do not become so. - Jean Baudrillard

You are born modern, you do not become so. – Jean Baudrillard

Other quotes by Jean Baudrillard

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. – Jean Baudrillard

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Excess
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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

Category:
Discovery
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If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World. – Jean Baudrillard

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Discovery
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Other Quotes from
Modern, Modernism
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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. – Bryan Appleyard

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. – Angela Carter

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Youre not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you cant face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it. – Malcom X

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Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers – the guys who steal all the money and take off. Thats the fun stuff. – John Grisham

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Even if you know that what youll say will hurt a womans feelings, Ive learned that its better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about. – Stephen Moyer

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. – Francis Bacon

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