Owen Barfield Quotes
- In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but…
- The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.
- When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.
- By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is…
- There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the…
- And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?