The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always chan…

- Medard Boss

A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statement…

- Medard Boss

The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which ou…

- Medard Boss

We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, i…

- Medard Boss

A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly…

- Medard Boss

If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,'…

- Medard Boss

Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonde…

- Medard Boss

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitu…

- Medard Boss

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

- Medard Boss