So a bit of flesh or even a finger may be taken from one
body and grafted on to another, but a leg cannot be grafted; if a leg
is cut off it must die. It may, however, be maintained that the
owner dies too, even though he recovers, for a man who has lost a leg
is not the man he was. {92}
VII--ON THE MAKING OF MUSIC, PICTURES AND BOOKS
Thought and Word
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Thought pure and simple is as near to God as we can get; it is
through this that we are linked with God. The highest thought is
ineffable; it must be felt from one person to another but cannot be
articulated. All the most essential and thinking part of thought is
done without words or consciousness. It is not till doubt and
consciousness enter that words become possible.
The moment a thing is written, or even can be written, and reasoned
about, it has changed its nature by becoming tangible, and hence
finite, and hence it will have an end in disintegration. It has
entered into death. And yet till it can be thought about and
realised more or less definitely it has not entered into life. Both
life and death are necessary factors of each other. But our
profoundest and most important convictions are unspeakable.
So it is with unwritten and indefinable codes of honour, conventions,
art-rules--things that can be felt but not explained--these are the
most important, and the less we try to understand them, or even to
think about them, the better.
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