"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."
― Jean Baudrillard
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― Jean Baudrillard
More From Jean Baudrillard
- "Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors."
- "I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
- "Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society."
More In Great
- "Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with."― Adam Ant
- "There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?"― Wole Soyinka
- "Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."― E. B. White