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In all great poetry there is a kind of “kenosis” of the understanding, a self-emptying of the tongue. Here language points away from itself to something greater than itself.

— L. P. Jacks The Usurpation Of Language (1910)

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Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous — reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

Religious Perplexities (1922)

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.

Education through Recreation (1932)

"Spirit" is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.

Near the Brink: Observations of a Nonagenarian (1952)

Are not the richest and most significant experiences of man precisely those which are the least patient of verbal reproduction?

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To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

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