“To see things properly, it is not enough simply to look. People who look at life - purely as witnesses, spectators - are not rare; and one of the strangest lessons to be learnt from our literature is that professional spectators, judges by vocation and witnesses by predestination, contemplate life with less understanding and grasp of its rich content than anyone else. There really is no substitution for participation!”

— Henri Lefebvre

From Critique of Everyday Life: Volume 1 (1947/1991)

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French philosopher 1901–1991

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