Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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