The Telling"This short work outlines with great clarity and beauty the view that the significance of life lies in consciousness of existence as shared by all living beings, past and present. In a complementary sense it is concerned with the general function of language as the articulation of our humanness and the truth-function of that."--Book jacket. |
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Page 126
... possible care not to part with one's knowledge — to keep all that one can of it fresh , and at one's side . -- I myself do not apply myself to experience as a writer . I do not think of my work as the work of me the writer but as the ...
... possible care not to part with one's knowledge — to keep all that one can of it fresh , and at one's side . -- I myself do not apply myself to experience as a writer . I do not think of my work as the work of me the writer but as the ...
Page 138
... possible and naturally possible to less than a whole hope , hope of a whole virtue , of partaking of the whole reality of being . In breaking , as I have described , with the meaning of ' human ' as a com- pound of varying meanings held ...
... possible and naturally possible to less than a whole hope , hope of a whole virtue , of partaking of the whole reality of being . In breaking , as I have described , with the meaning of ' human ' as a com- pound of varying meanings held ...
Page 179
... possible for religion - for an art of religion . Beyond a present practice of putting myth to psycho - religious uses , this theology makes future religious success depend on new symbols of things sacred . The future hope is reduced to ...
... possible for religion - for an art of religion . Beyond a present practice of putting myth to psycho - religious uses , this theology makes future religious success depend on new symbols of things sacred . The future hope is reduced to ...
Contents
Nonce Preface | 1 |
An Invitation | 83 |
Extracts from Communications | 108 |
Copyright | |
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