Quote by John Berger
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly w

The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. – John Berger

Other quotes by John Berger

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

Category:
Grief, Grieving
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

Category:
Nudity
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but. – John Berger

Category:
Animals
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Dreams
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I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale. – Alison Krauss

Category:
Dreams

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. – Wilma Rudolph

Category:
Dreams

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. – Paul Gauguin

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Dreams

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket. – Emil Zatopek

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Dreams

Random Quotes

You dont change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. – Jawaharlal Nehru

Category:
Change

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. – Anthony Horowitz

Category:
Fear

I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. – P.G. Wodehouse

Category:
Fate

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. – Joseph Hall

Category:
Death