The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
JOHN BERGER
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
More John Berger Quotes
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
JOHN BERGER