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... heart ; the heart may , through the light of words , reveal or dis - cover truth . Plato says in Cratylus , “ Name ; the word seems to be a compressed sentence , signifying being for which there is a search . " The translator faces a ...
... heart ; the heart may , through the light of words , reveal or dis - cover truth . Plato says in Cratylus , “ Name ; the word seems to be a compressed sentence , signifying being for which there is a search . " The translator faces a ...
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... heart . Every poem has a kokoro , or heart . And yet so very much recent North American poetry has been the articulation of cultured melancholy , of the elegant ennui and unnameable sadness of the middle class . Most often , we blame ...
... heart . Every poem has a kokoro , or heart . And yet so very much recent North American poetry has been the articulation of cultured melancholy , of the elegant ennui and unnameable sadness of the middle class . Most often , we blame ...
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... heart and mind . When we first met the Chinese calligrapher Yim Tse , he presented us with a scroll which reads , " Great things begin in the heart . " Of course , the earliest Chinese books were scrolls , and the educated mind was ...
... heart and mind . When we first met the Chinese calligrapher Yim Tse , he presented us with a scroll which reads , " Great things begin in the heart . " Of course , the earliest Chinese books were scrolls , and the educated mind was ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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