Owen Barfield Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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 frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.”
-- Owen Barfield

#Life #Attitude #Sleep
“The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.”
-- Owen Barfield

#Sight #Lost #Obvious
“When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.”
-- Owen Barfield

#Progress #Velocity #Certain
“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 a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
-- Owen Barfield

#Men #Historical #Would Be
“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 contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.”
-- Owen Barfield

#Reading #Character #Men
“And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?”
-- Owen Barfield

#Essence #Language #Relation

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Owen Barfield Quote When The Velocity Of Progress Increases Beyond A Certain Point It Becomes Indistinguishable

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