There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.
...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old. - Owen Barfield
...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.
- Owen Barfield
When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of c… - Owen Barfield
When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of c…
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? - Owen Barfield
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?
By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a na… - Owen Barfield
By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a na…
There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in … - Owen Barfield
There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in …
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis. - Owen Barfield
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.
The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it. - Owen Barfield
The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.
In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into the… - Owen Barfield
In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into the…
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