Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.