1. Home
    2.  › 
  2. Quotes tagged “Never Ending Story”

Quotes tagged “Never Ending Story”

“We can keep our thinking and experiments as logical as possible, but the truth has to be worked out to some degree at random and then tested for logicality after we have stumbled on it by ways which may well involve some logic but involve much more besides.”
— Walter Ong, Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization
Tagged: Logic Is An Aftermath, Against Logic, Logicality, Never Ending Story, Forever Grasping, The Context Gap, And Something Else
“Joy’s trick is to supply dry lips with what can cool and slake, leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache nothing can satisfy.”
— Richard Wilbur, Hamlen Brook
Tagged: Joy, Never-ending Story, Searching For Joy
“The wonderful thing about language is that it promotes its own oblivion: my eyes follow the lines on the paper, and from the moment I am caught up in their meaning, I lose sight of them.”
— Maurice Merleau Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
Tagged: Truth as Movement, Reading, Never Ending Story
“You are almost you.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Identity & Self, Never Ending Story, Always Still More To Learn
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
— Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Tagged: Knowledge, Never Ending Story
“For models come and go. Not that the old ones turn out necessarily to be untrue. They may remain entirely true while they become quite unfruitful. Models provide analogies which are of their very nature limited, and, as this dialogue which makes human society what it is moves on, the models once found serviceable because relevant in a special to current preoccupations are abandoned for others more relevant to new problems, new insights, and new solutions.”
— Walter Ong, American Catholic Crossroads
Tagged: Truth as Movement, Never Ending Story, The Evolution of Knowledge

Featured Posts

50 Paulo Coelho Quotes That Will Soothe Your Aching Soul 24 'Stranger Things' Quotes To Help Hold You Over Until The Second Season Pick Up Lines For Girls 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature 18 Grey's Anatomy Quotes That Were All Too Real For Television 50 Quotes That Prove It Takes Strength To Let Your Vulnerable Side Show

About The Authors

This page was created by our editorial team. Each page is manually curated, researched, collected, and issued by our staff writers. Quotes contained on this page have been double checked for their citations, their accuracy and the impact it will have on our readers.

Kelly Peacock is an accomplished poet and social media expert based in Brooklyn, New York. Kelly has a Bachelor's degree in creative writing from Farieligh Dickinson University and has contributed to many literary and cultural publications. Kelly assists on a wide variety of quote inputting and social media functions for Quote Catalog. Visit her personal website here.

Kendra Syrdal is a writer, editor, partner, and senior publisher for The Thought & Expression Company. Over the last few years she has been personally responsible for writing, editing, and producing over 30+ million pageviews on Thought Catalog.