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

“Byproduct of the circulation of commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism comes down fundamentally to the freedom to go and see what has become banal. The economic planning of the frequenting of different places is already in itself the guarantee of their equivalence. The same modernization that has withdrawn the element of time from journeying, has also withdrawn the reality of space.”

“In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.”

“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”

“Le tourisme, se ramène fondamentalement au loisir d'aller voir ce qui est devenu banal.”

“I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of God.”