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Top 25 Paul Virilio Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Virilio Quote: “War is cinema, and cinema is war.”

1. “War is cinema, and cinema is war.”

— Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio Quote: “The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.”

2. “The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “Images contaminate us like viruses.”

3. “Images contaminate us like viruses.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We’ll dream of being blind.”

4. “There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We’ll dream of being blind.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?”

5. “How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.”

6. “Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.”

7. “Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.”

8. “Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ′ I can’t forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn’t an act of war, but an experiment’.”

9. “An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ′ I can’t forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn’t an act of war, but an experiment’.”

— Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio Quote: “The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.”

10. “The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.”

11. “In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.”

— Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio Quote: “Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.”

12. “Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “Since there was no longer a horizon towards which to rush, they would invent fake ones – substitute horizons.”

13. “Since there was no longer a horizon towards which to rush, they would invent fake ones – substitute horizons.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed ‘the integral accident’ that is the continuation of politics by other means.”

14. “It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed ‘the integral accident’ that is the continuation of politics by other means.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.”

15. “War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye’s function being the function of a weapon.”

16. “From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye’s function being the function of a weapon.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.”

17. “The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “The true hero of the American utopia is neither the cowboy nor the soldier, but the pioneer, the pathfinder, the person who ‘takes his body, where his eyes have been’.”

18. “The true hero of the American utopia is neither the cowboy nor the soldier, but the pioneer, the pathfinder, the person who ‘takes his body, where his eyes have been’.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “The reconciliation of nothing and reality and the suspension of time and space by high velocities replace the exoticism of journeys with a vast expanse of emptiness.”

19. “The reconciliation of nothing and reality and the suspension of time and space by high velocities replace the exoticism of journeys with a vast expanse of emptiness.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.”

20. “While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.”

21. “Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “By the way, who invented Peace?”

22. “By the way, who invented Peace?”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and military exchanges interactive.”

23. “It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and military exchanges interactive.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.”

24. “There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.”

25. “When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “The fear of exposing one’s private life gives way to the desire to “over-expose” it to every one.”

26. “The fear of exposing one’s private life gives way to the desire to “over-expose” it to every one.”

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Paul Virilio Quote: “The achievement of star status itself would seem to be based not on talent or good looks any more, but on the risks taken for the camera by a whole host of stuntmen brought in from the fairgrounds and circuses: trick riding, controlled falls, suspended accidents and suicidal exploits, leading, with the coming of ‘live’ transmission, to the ‘confessional’ TV programme, to the so-called reality show, which shades over, at the edges, into the snuff movie.”

27. “The achievement of star status itself would seem to be based not on talent or good looks any more, but on the risks taken for the camera by a whole host of stuntmen brought in from the fairgrounds and circuses: trick riding, controlled falls, suspended accidents and suicidal exploits, leading, with the coming of ‘live’ transmission, to the ‘confessional’ TV programme, to the so-called reality show, which shades over, at the edges, into the snuff movie.”

— Paul Virilio

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