The Limits of Language
Channel: Meaning Is Alive
Date: 2021-12-31

Language remains one of the most paradoxical phenomena I have encountered.

It simultaneously reveals and obfuscates.
The same words can both simplify and complicate.
Language can stimulate an insight or kill it, like Nietzsche's bird.

And perhaps most striking to me--it is often by the invitation of language that I am given a glimpse into the truly ineffable. Could it be that our efforts at defining the undefinable mystery of existence, make the very presence of that mystery salient to us?

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(Music used: "Fantasía que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico" as performed by Sofia Asunción Claro / Tourdion as performed by Arany Zoltán. I do not own this music.)