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.

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.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.