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Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it’s more ineffable. It’s harder to express Picture Quote #1

The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it Picture Quote #1

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing Picture Quote #1

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreduci Picture Quote #1

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what Picture Quote #1

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered Picture Quote #1

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Prayer has a right to the word ineffable. It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express, of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it Picture Quote #1

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods Picture Quote #1

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Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it’s more ineffable. It’s harder to express (Ineffable Quotes) The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it (Ineffable Quotes) The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing (Ineffable Quotes) I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreduci (Ineffable Quotes) It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what (Ineffable Quotes) War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered (Ineffable Quotes) Prayer has a right to the word ineffable. It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express, of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it (Ineffable Quotes) The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods (Ineffable Quotes)

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