As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

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It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

transformed teach useless

He who believes in nothing still needs a girl to believe in him. by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

He who believes in nothing still needs a girl to believe in him.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

girl believe needs

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends. by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

trends war

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

old-love next fear

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realiz... by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

eye order firsts

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

communication voice names

Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we... by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we learn to understand sexuality.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

sexuality light sex

Everybody is a bit right. by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Everybody is a bit right.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

bits

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters o... by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

space play fun

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

winning running long

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, ever... by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

mankind men war

Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

holiday men mean

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting... by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

boredom soldier waiting

On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

giving-up religious children