To name Tao is to name nothing. Tao is not the name of (something created). Cause and chance have no bearing on the Tao. Tao is a name that indicates without defining. Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended.
Call things by their right names … Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
In real life unlike in Shakespeare the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are in very important respects what they seem to be.
The Names . . . have existed from all eternity: these Names are designated as Lords (Arbab) who often have all the appearance of hypostases though they cannot strictly be defined as such. We know them only by our knowledge of ourselves (that is the basic maxim). God describes Himself to us through ourselves. Which means that the divine Names are essentially relative to the beings who name them since these beings discover and experience them in their own mode of being. . . . Thus the divine Names have meaning and full reality only through and for beings . . . in which they are manifested. Likewise from all eternity these forms substrate of the divine Names have existed in the divine Essence (A yan thabita). And it is these latent individualities who from all eternity have aspired to concrete being in actu. Their aspiration is itself nothing other than the nostalgia of the divine Names yearning to be revealed. And this nostalgia of the divine Names is nothing other than the sadness of the unrevealed God the anguish He experiences in His unknownness and occultation.
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found men did not for that reason suppose that none existed but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.
I think its funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays theyre afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that thats all it would take to blast your whole big complex structure with all your laws and guns just somebody naming the exact nature of what youre doing?
A monument to Newton! a monument to Shakespeare! Look up to Heaven look into the Human Heart. Till the planets and the passions the affections and the fixed stars are extinguished their names cannot die.
I dont remember anybodys name. How do you think the dahling thing got started?
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
A good name like good will is got by many actions and lost by one.
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
?I have no name: I am but two days old.? What shall I call thee? ?I happy am Joy is my name? Sweet joy befall thee!
What I learned I dont remember. What little I know I have guessed.
To name Tao is to name nothing. Tao is not the name of (something created). Cause and chance have no bearing on the Tao. Tao is a name that indicates without defining. Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended.
A signature always reveals a mans character and sometimes even his name.
Fools? names like fools? faces Are often seen in public places.
Call things by their right names … Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
In real life unlike in Shakespeare the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are in very important respects what they seem to be.
The Names . . . have existed from all eternity: these Names are designated as Lords (Arbab) who often have all the appearance of hypostases though they cannot strictly be defined as such. We know them only by our knowledge of ourselves (that is the basic maxim). God describes Himself to us through ourselves. Which means that the divine Names are essentially relative to the beings who name them since these beings discover and experience them in their own mode of being. . . . Thus the divine Names have meaning and full reality only through and for beings . . . in which they are manifested. Likewise from all eternity these forms substrate of the divine Names have existed in the divine Essence (A yan thabita). And it is these latent individualities who from all eternity have aspired to concrete being in actu. Their aspiration is itself nothing other than the nostalgia of the divine Names yearning to be revealed. And this nostalgia of the divine Names is nothing other than the sadness of the unrevealed God the anguish He experiences in His unknownness and occultation.
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found men did not for that reason suppose that none existed but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.
I think its funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays theyre afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that thats all it would take to blast your whole big complex structure with all your laws and guns just somebody naming the exact nature of what youre doing?
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.
A monument to Newton! a monument to Shakespeare! Look up to Heaven look into the Human Heart. Till the planets and the passions the affections and the fixed stars are extinguished their names cannot die.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.