“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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 fou…”— Walter Ong, amazon.com