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“Philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language.”
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“the business of Logic is not the analysis of generalities but their mingling.”
― Adventures of Ideas
― Adventures of Ideas
“Science only deals with half the evidence provided by human experience. It divides the seamless coat — or, to change the metaphor into a happier form, it examines the coat, which is superficial, and neglects the body which is fundamental.”
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“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way inexorably. Words and phrases must be stretched towards a generality foreign to their ordinary usage; and however such elements of language be stabilized as technicalities, they remain metaphors mutely appealing for an imaginative leap.”
― Process and Reality
― Process and Reality
“We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again, Drawing up from the great roots.”
― Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems – Five Decades of Powerful American Poetry with Timeless Classics
― Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems – Five Decades of Powerful American Poetry with Timeless Classics
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