Quote by John Berger
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

Other quotes by John Berger

Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

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Capitalism
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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. – John Berger

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Media
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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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Other Quotes from
Language
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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Language

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. – Sir Edward Appleton

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Language

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

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Language

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. – John Locke

Category:
Language

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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldnt make me happy. Thats why Im working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ. – David Guetta

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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, then what do we do? – David Foster Wallace

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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. – Brendan Francis

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Acceptance