Mark Johnson Quotes
A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can make sense of. A metaphor, in this "experiential" sense, is a process by w . . . Read more

-Mark Johnson
After jiu-jitsu, you will appreciate how well the body works without our even realizing or recognizing it. You will, however, have some insight into its extraordinariness when you have trouble wiping your bum because it hurts to straighten your arm. I guarantee at that point and time . . . Read more

-Mark Johnson
If you’re being smothered from someone on top of you, you’ve got to move, if you can’t move, you better pray, and then find a pocket of air (this pocket of air will be hot and humid and almost not worth breathing, but it’s all you got).

-Mark Johnson
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The rule for your hips is simple: if you’re on the bottom, you need to create space; if you’re on the top, you need to take away space. You create space by moving the hips as far away from your opponent’s hips as possible. You do the opposite if you’re on top, you close any di . . . Read more

-Mark Johnson
I suspect alligators never get arm-barred; dinosaurs where probably safe from the submission as well, at least the T-rex.

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A crucial point here is that understanding is not only a matter of reflection, using finitary propositions, on some preexistent, already determinate experience. Rather, understanding is the way we "have a world," the way we experience our world as a comprehensible reality. Such unders . . . Read more

-Mark Johnson