Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition.… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
