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David E. Cooper

"There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'."

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David E. Cooper

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“It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.”

Source : Monica Baldwin (1949). “I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent”, Hamish Hamilton
“I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.”
“Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.”

Source : Arthur Symons, Karl E. Beckson (1989). “Arthur Symons, selected letters, 1880-1935”, Univ of Iowa Pr
“The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.”
“God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!”
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”
“Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.”
“Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric,â€ he told his students, â€œmeaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word became flesh in the book of John: â€˜And the Word was made flesh, and He dwelt among us.â€™ Therefore, it was acceptable to depict the Word as having a human form. In Islamic tradition, however, the Word did not become flesh, and therefore the Word needs to remain in the form of a word â€¦ in most cases, calligraphic renderings of the names of the holy figures of Islam.”

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