Quotes on Theory

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”

“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. ”

“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”

“What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.”

“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.”

“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”

“If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

In the long run, the theory of evolution by natural selection will be seen as one of the most important ideas ever proposed.