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

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

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.

Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.

Language does our thinking for us.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

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.