...only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the environment is de-restricted to become the world as an integral whole of manifest and latent elements. The second step is the work of language. This not only builds the 'house of being' - Heidegger took this phrase from Zarathustra's animals, which inform the convalescent: 'the house of being rebuilds itself eternally'; it is also the vehicle for the tendencies to run away from that house with which, by means of its inner surpluses, humans move towards the open. It need hardly be explained why the oldest parasite in the world, the world above, only appears with the second transcendence.
Peter SloterdijkTags: language transcendence immune-system house-of-being
No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the gauntlet."
"Ohhhh," he said. "I thought you were speaking literally."
"I do beg your pardon. Let's literally throw up, but figuratively throw down.
Tags: humor humour language fighting figures-of-speech
Photograph speaks every language; wisdom speaks every language; goodness speaks every language; love speaks every language! Always try to do the things that speak every language so that all will understand you!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: language
Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop.
Victor KlempererTags: humor language punctuation
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
Francis A. SchaefferTags: christianity language culture gospel francis scheffer
If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.
Rodney UlyateTags: language exaggeration twitter 2013
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
E.M. ForsterTags: language
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
William GibsonTags: language
The tongue of man is a twisty thing.
HomerTags: language
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: language linguistics
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