Sublime

As he got older he developed his own ideas in virtual disregard of the traditional languages of psychoanalysis.

Just as one generation could prevent the very existence of the next generation, by all entering a monastery or jumping into the sea, so one set of thinkers can in some degree prevent further thinking by teaching the next generation that there is no validity in any human thought.

Written language absolves one of the need to remember much of the world, for the memories are stored in the words.

Stagnation is the default state of man.

I believe too strongly that mind and language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.

The whole thrust of modern thought has been toward reducing the sphere of individual moral responsibility.

the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.

larger, contemporary fears about just how intractable or manipulable so-called human nature is.

In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured.