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Kafka, Franz.

There are countless places of Refuge; there is only one place of Salvation.

The Great Wall of China,

In:  Short, Robert.  The Parables of Peanuts, (PG252, Fawcett, 1968), p. 77.

REFUGES; SALVATION

19770000

Kahler, Erich.

While this implies basic differences of approach in dealing with the objective world, it should not blind us to the fact that both scientific formulation and artistic figuration are exploratory ways to get acquainted with the nature of reality.  Science proceeds in a direct manner, through analysis and quantitative reduction of reality itself, art indirectly, through imagical representation of coherent existences, or existential coherences.

"The Nature of the Symbol,"

In:  May, Rollo.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature., (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 52.

ART & SCIENCE; COHERENCE; EXISTENTIALISM; IMAGES; OBJECTIVITY; REALITY; REDUCTIONISM

19840000

Kallen, Horace M.

And that translations, however faithful, tend to become divergencies unknowlingly directed by the attitudes / and values of the translators is a truism.

"Aristotle,"

In:  Aristotle.  Politics & Poetics, (LQ466, Easton Pr., 1979), pp. v-vi.

ATTITUDES; TRANSLATIONS; TRANSLATORS; TRUISMS; VALUES

20050227

Kandinsky, Wassily.

Men attribute to these blind and dumb periods a special value, fot they judge them by outward results, thinking only of material / well-being.  They hail some technical advance, which can help nothing but the body, as a great achievement.  Real spiritual gains are at best under-valued, at worst entirely ignored.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art (PM006, c1947, 1912), p. 8.

TECHNOLOGY - ADVANCES; VALUES, MATERIAL; VALUES, SPIRITUAL

19860910

In science these men are positivists, only recognizing those things which can be weighed and measured.  Anything beyond that they consider as rather discreditable nonsense, that same nonsense about which they held yesterday the theories that today are proven.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art (PM006, c1947, 1912), p. 11.

MATERIALISM; MEASUREABLE; NONSENSE; POSITIVISM; SCIENCE; THEORIES

19860912

If we begin at once to break the bonds which bind us to nature, and devote ourselves to combination of pure colour and abstract form, we shall produce works which are mere decoration, which are suited to neckties or carpets

Concerning the Spiritual in Art (PM006, c1947, 1912), p. 47.

ABSTRACT, PURE; ART; ART AS DECORATION; COLOR; NATURE - ART; NECKTIES

19860915

It is the conviction that nothing mysterious can ever happen in our everyday life that has destroyed the joy of abstract thought.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art (PM006, c1947, 1912), p. 50.

JOY; MYSTERIOUS, THE; THINKING, ABSTRACT

19860915

Keay, John.

As so often, more historical data only generate less in the way of comforting certainty.

India:  A History.  (HQ509, Folio Society, 2003), vol. II, p. 415.

CERTAINTIES; DATA; FACTS; HISTORY

20060215

Keegan, John.

A belief in Progress was indeed already promising to supplant a belief in God.  And the phenomenon of war offers, if anything, greater offense to the former than the latter.  For Christians have always accepted that Man, whether individually or en masse, can and will behave badly, cruelly, and violently.  The vision of the future / which the ideal of Progress holds out, however, demands much greater optimism about human nature.

The Face of Battle.  (HPK***,   , 19??), pp. 60-61.

CHRISTIANITY; HUMAN NATURE; OPTIMISM; PROGRESS; WAR

19840000

Keightley, Thomas.

My advice to those who may read these pages is to shun literature, if not already blest with competence.

The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People (HJ129, ), p. v.

AUTHORS; LITERATURE AS VOCATION; WRITING

19810000

For human nature will ever remain unchanged; the love of gain and of material enjoyments, omnipotent as it appears to be at present, will never totally extinguish the higher and purer aspirations of mind; and there will always be those, however limited in number, who will desire to know how the former dwellers of earth thought, felt, and acted.  For these, mythology, as connected with religion and history, will always have attractions.

The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People (HJ129, ), p. vi.

ASPIRATIONS; HISTORY; MYTHOLOGY; PLEASURE; RELIGIONS; VALUES; WEALTH

19810000

Keillor, Garrison.

From a chair through a crowded room to the buffet dinner and back to the chair with a loaded plate is a long route for a tall fellow—a route we have to study for tricky corners, and edges, low doorways, light fixtures, rug wrinkles, and other low-lying obstacles that we, being tall, don't see at a glance.  A tall fellow has his hands full on a maneuver like that.

"After a Fall,"

In:  Happy to Be Here (Penguin, 1983), p. 253.

CLUMSINESS; COORDINATION; OBSTACLES; TALL PEOPLE

19831100

...I suppose tall people are the funniest to see fall, because we try so hard not to.  We work hard for our dignity, trying to keep the beanpole straight, keep those daddy longlegs coordinated, keep those big boats from tangling with each other.

"After a Fall,"

In:  Happy to Be Here (Penguin, 1983), p. 253.

CLUMSINESS; DIGNITY; FALLING; FUNNY; TALL PEOPLE

19831100

Keith-Lucas, Alan.

The opposite of love is not hate.  It is indifference.  Hate and love are very close to each other, as we might expect if we understood the ubiquity of ambivalence.

Giving and Taking Help (PG195, ), p. 42.

HATE; INDIFFERENCE; LOVE

19760900

Kelly, Walt.

The Law assumes every man is innocent...[sic] until...[sic] caught.

Pogo: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us (PL191), p. 40.

GUILT; INNOCENCE; LAW, THE

19850000

The best break anybody ever gets is being alive  in the first place. (Porkypine)

Pogo's Will Be That Was (PJ378), p. 73.

LIFE; OPPORTUNITIES

19880821

Kelsey, Morton T.

Myth is essentially the way man talks about his religious encounter with God and the spiritual world.  Eliminate it, and man doesn't have much to talk about religiously; his religion becomes meaningless and flat, or else compulsive.

Myth, History, and Faith (PL064, Paulist Pr., 1974), p. 3.

EXPERIENCE, SPIRITUAL; GOD; MYTHS; RELIGION; SPIRITUAL, THE

19870807

Lacking any use of myth, man becomes only a partial human being, because he has lost his principal means of dealing with spiritual reality.

Myth, History, and Faith (PL064, Paulist Pr., 1974), p. 5.

EXPERIENCE, SPIRITUAL; MATERIALISM; MYTHS; REALITY

19860705

If one is to consider the possiblitiy that evil is something more substantial than just the absense of good, then he has to overhaul his whole world view, and this is a very painful and difficulty task.  It is better simply to deny the reality of any such principle out of hand.

Myth, History, and Faith (PL064, Paulist Pr., 1974), p. 35.

CHANGE; COSMOLOGY; DENIAL; GOOD   EVIL

19870808

In a rational and materialistic world there is no place for such a principle of destructiveness.  It is neither rational nor material, and so it cannot exist.

Myth, History, and Faith (PL064, Paulist Pr., 1974), p. 35.

COSMOLOGY; EVIL; MATERIALISM; TWENTIETH CENTURY

19870808

Evil, the materialist believes, is anything that stands in the way of man's efforts to achieve a materialistic utopia..../Of course, there is still another problem with this point of view:  Who is to be trusted to determine what is to shape the utopian world?

Myth, History, and Faith (PL064, Paulist Pr., 1974), pp. 40-1.

EVIL; MATERIALISM; UTOPIAS; VALUES

19870808

Because men had dreamed of such events and had told the stories of them that are called myths does not make the Christian story any less plausible, but actually far more so.  Once the myth is understood, not as a human invention, but as a pattern of the structure of reality, then one would expect to find such patters emerging in men's dreams and visions and imagination before they become / realized in history.

Myth, History, and Faith (PL064, Paulist Pr., 1974), pp. 67-8.

CHRISTIANITY; HISTORY; MYTHS; SPIRITUAL REALITY

19870809

A myth may be either an imaginative production or an account of actual historical happenings.  The test is whether it stirs the depth of man and calls up emotion and response in a way that it comes from beyond the ordinary physical world, from a reality of spirit.

Myth, History, and Faith (PL064, Paulist Pr., 1974), p. 101.

HISTORY; IMAGINATION; MYTHS - DEFINITIONS; SPIRITUAL REALITY

19870815

Until the eleventh century, when the thinking of Aristotle reached Western Europe, men had believed along with Plato that man had three ways of knowing:

1.   He knew by sense experience.
2.   He knew by reason.
3.   And he knew by what Plato called Divine madness, or a direct contact with nonphysical reality; myths were one result of this last kind of knowing.

Myth, History, and Faith (PL064, Paulist Pr., 1974), p. 125.

EXPERIENCE; KNOWLEDGE; MADNESS, DIVINE; MYTHS; PLATO; REASON

19870817

Keniston, Kenneth.

Science is an effort to control the roles of subjectivity in perception, interpretation, and explanation.  But in human sciences, this goal is hard to achieve.

The Uncommitted (SWBTS, Harcourt, Brace, 1965), p. 11.

EXPLANATIONS; INTERPRETATIONS; PERCEPTION; SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SUBJECTIVITY

19770000

I assume that the purpose of any society should be the greatest possible fulfillment of its individual members....

The Uncommitted (SWBTS, Harcourt, Brace, 1965), p. 12.

INDIVIDUALS; SOCIETIES

19770000

I am inclined to see most student protest not as a manifestation of alienation.., but rather of committment to the very values that alienated students reject.

Young Radicals.  (SWBTS, Harcourt Brace, 1968), p. 341.

ALIENATION; COMMITMENT; PROTESTS; STUDENTS; VALUES

19770000

Kennedy, John F.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961.

FREE SOCIETIES; POOR; RICH

19740000

Kerr, Clark.

The aim of the university is not to make ideas safe for students, but to make students safe for ideas.

in Honer, Stanley M., and Hunt, Thomas C.  Invitation to Philosophy (PH060, Wadsworth, 1973), p. 7.

EDUCATION, HIGHER; IDEAS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES

19750000?

Kierkegaard, Søren. 

Would-be theologians...must be on their guard lest by beginning too soon to preach they rather chatter themselves into Christianity than live themselves into it and find themselves at home there.

Journal, July 11, 1838;

In:  "Reflections, Christianity Today (May 5, 1988), p. 33.

CHATTER; CHRISTIANITY; PREACHING; THEOLOGIANS

19880524

Without risk there is no faith.

A Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1941), p. 182;

In:  Michalson, Carl, ed.  The Witness of Kierkegaard (PG258, Association Press, 1960), p. 96.

FAITH; RISK

20030704

...Sunday glimpses into eternity lead to nothing but wind.

A Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1941), p. 416;

In:  Michalson, Carl, ed.  The Witness of Kierkegaard (PG258, Association Press, 1960), p. 66.

CHRISTIAN LIFESTYLES; ETERNITY; SUNDAYS; WORSHIP SERVICES

20030702

...for he who always hopes for the best becomes old, and he who is always prepared for the worst grows old early, but he who believes preserves an eternal youth.

Fear and Tremblings

In his:  Fear and Trembling and the Sickness Unto Death (PH194, Princeton University Press, 1968), p. 33.

AGEING; BELIEF; HOPE; HOPING FOR THE BEST; PREPARING FOR THE WORST; WORST, EXPECTING THE; YOUTH

20030704

Philosophy cannot and should not give faith, but it should understand itself and know what it has to offer and take nothing away, and least of all should fool people out of something as if it were nothing.

Fear and Tremblings

In his:  Fear and Trembling and the Sickness Unto Death (PH194, Princeton University Press, 1968), p. 44.

FAITH; PHILOSOPHY

20031004

...our age is not willing to stop with faith, with its miracle of turning water into wine, it goes further, it turns wine into water.

Fear and Tremblings

In his:  Fear and Trembling and the Sickness Unto Death (PH194, Princeton University Press, 1968), p. 48.

FAITH; MIRACLES; MODERN ERA; WATER; WINE

20031004

For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it; and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

Philosophical Fragments (Princeton University Press, 1936), p. 31;

In:  Michalson, Carl, ed.  The Witness of Kierkegaard (PG258, Association Press, 1960), p. 97.

GOD - EXISTENCE; GOD - PROOFS

20030704

To love oneself in the right way and to love one's neighbor correspond perfectly to one another; fundamentally they are one and the same thing.

Works of Love, p. 39.

LOVE

19750000

Kilby, Clyde S.

While the basic requirement of systemizing is abstracting, myth is concerned with wholes.  Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.  Not that myth is irrational but that it accomodates the rational while rising above it.

"Mythic and Christian Elements in Tolkien,"

In:  Montgomery, John W. ed.  Myth, Allegory, and Gospel. (PH015, Bethany Fellowship, 1974), p. 120.

HOLISM; MYTHS; RATIONAL THOUGHT; REALITY; SYSTEMIZING

19770000

Killinger, John.

Truth is not necessarily other  than what modern man has discovered, but it is more  than he has discovered.

Bread for the Wilderness, Wine for the Journey.  (HJ29, Word, 1976), p. 13.

DISCOVERIES; MAN, MODERN; TRUTH

19840000

Tragic situations cause men to weep; but tragic resolutions carry them beyond tears.  The impact of the pathos remains; but something else, like a rainbow after the flood, also remains.  The horror has done its worst, but has not vanquished the human spirit.  It has cleansed the spirit...but it has not destroyed it.

The Fragile Presence.  (PH94, Fortress Pr., 1973), p. 46.

CLEANSING; HORRORS; SPIRIT; TRAGEDIES

19840000

We are irresponsible in our religion when we fail to live fully in the world, continually open to the stimuli of the created order; and we are irresponsible to the world itself when we immerse ourselves in sensuality and lose the perspective of transcendence.  The world then becomes tedious, boring, threatening, without the palliation of another dimension seen as breaking in upon it, or latent in it; and God, conceptualized and abstracted to far from the world as environment, becomes lifeless, the pale shadow of a thought without substance.

The Fragile Presence.  (PH94, Fortress Pr., 1973), p. 107.

BOREDOM; DIMENSIONS, OTHER; GOD; RELIGION; SENSUALITY; VALUES, MATERIAL; VALUES, TRANSCENDENT

19840000

King, Carole.

The truth is that, when life is good, creativity suffers.

in Charles Champlin (LA Times), Courier-Journal (January 20, 1984), p. C8.

ART & SUFFERING; CREATIVITY

19840120

King, M. C., and Wilson, A. C.

Molecular biology, emerging after the modern synthesis [of evolutionary theory], revealed that there is no necessary relationship between change at the genetic level and change in morphology and behavior.

"Evolution at Two Levels in Humans and Chimpanzees," Science (1975), 186:107-116;

As summarized in:  Bochert, Catherine M., and Zihlman, Adrienne L.  "The Ontologeny and Phylogeny of symbolizing,"

In:  Foster, Mary LeCron and Botscharrow, Lucy Jayne, eds.  The Life of Symbols.  (FIUGL, Westview Pr., 1990), p. 16.

BEHAVIOR; CHANGE; EVOLUTION THEORY; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

20050815

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Strength to Love,

in "Reflections", Christianity Today (May 14, 1990), p. 33.

CHURCH & STATE; CONSCIENCE; MASTERS; SERVANTS

19900512

Kipling, Rudyard. 

East is East and West is West,
  and never the twain shall meet.

"The Ballad of East and West,"

In:  Guinness, Os.  The East, No Exit (Pham. 9, c1976), p. 6.

ORIENT, THE; WESTERN CULTURE

19770000

You may have noticed that many religious people are deeply suspicious.  They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the Unregenerate.

"Watches of the Night,"

In:  Plain Tales from the Hills,

In:  Collected Short Stories (HR053, Folio Soc., 2005), p. 59.

INIQUITY; RELIGOUS PEOPLE; SUSPICIONS; UNREGENERATE, THE

20061103

Kleinberg, Howard.

I don't know why I watch presidential speeches on the tube; they are as believeable as professional wrestling matches

"Bedtime Stories from the Oval Office,"

Miami News (19870815), p. 10A.

HONESTY; PRESIDENTS; SPEECHES; TELEVISION; WRESTLING

19870815

Kreeft, Peter.

Concepts represent; names present.  "In the name of" means "in the real presence and power of."

"The Wonder of the Silmarillion,"

in: Hillegas, Mark R., ed.  Shadows of Imagination (HK116, SIU Press, 1979), p. 167.

CONCEPTS; NAMES; PRESENCE

19870925

Kubie, Lawrence.

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience...to be influenced by reasonable arguments...and especially the freedom to cease when sated.  The essence of illness is the freezing of behaior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

in: David Brin, Sundiver (1980, PN077), p. 193.

ADAPTABILITY; FLEXIBILITY; MENTAL ILLNESS; SANITY

19900531

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