"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
“We think by means of words, and we have to use the same ones for so many different thoughts that, as soon as new meanings have entered into one set, they creep into all our theories and begin to mold our whole cosmos.”
Owen Barfield, History in English Words
“True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment”
Owen Barfield, History in English Words
“…library terror – that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books…”
Owen Barfield, Night Operation
“We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.”
Owen Barfield, History in English Words