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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and ...more

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Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

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It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I th...more

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To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at ...more

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Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned...more

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God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past m...more

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What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happ...more