Life is available only in the present moment.
Man is rotten with perfection.
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
We not only interpret the character of events. . . we may also interpret our interpretations.
Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.
It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.
No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.
The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.