Talks on Truth

by Charles Fillmore, Mary Katherine MacDougall, Josh Goodman (Narrator)

"Ideas are hinged; they swing in and they swing out. Not everyone has observed this. But everyone must observe it, and note also the swing of his particular ideas. An idea that swings in has a mission. It is of spirit, and has power to do far beyond an idea that swings out and dissipates its forces in the whirl of the periphery. On the inner side, ideas behold great wisdom and attach themselves to it; then they lose their identity as limited things and take on the unlimited."

Charles Fillmore was a man years ahead of his time. Although Talks on Truth was originally published in the 1920s, its words have as much (if not more) relevance today. Dive into this classic New Thought text with an open mind, and see what ideas you create as a result.

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First published January 1, 1965

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[Raymond Lam · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is a collection of Fillmore's  lectures on deixis delivered in 1971 at Santa Cruz. They are seminal work of the subject matter which features a study of person, place, time, discourse, and social deixis, and, the deictically anchored conditions of the motion verbs '"come" and "go". Some of the materials such as person, place, and time deixis already made their way to standard pragmatics and semantics text books by Levinson and Lyons. Fillmore provides a wealth of examples and other research to elucidate his analyses, some of which are from other languages. Fillmore also acknowledges that there has been a lot of research done on the subject since the lecture series and offers a more up to date bibliography. This work is indispensable for any study on deixis or demonstratives.