Jean Baudrillard Quotes

Illusion never changed into something real.

Nothing is real.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.

All is but illusion and disaster.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

Nothing in this world is real

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

That which is cannot be true.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'