Stories are equipment for living.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

Language does our thinking for us.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.