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.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

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

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.

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

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.

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.