Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Quote by John Berger

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself....

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself....

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and...

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and...

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential...

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing...

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing...

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not...

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not...

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork....

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork....

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for...

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like...

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one...

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one...

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,...

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,...

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and...

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and...

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being...

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography....

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography....

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what...

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what...

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange...

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of...

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of...