17 Quotes by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

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

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

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

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride makes all the difference between cattle-raising and a nation’s good breeding.

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.

Everybody is a bit right.

Language is not speech, it is a full circle from word to sound to perception to understanding to feeling, to memorizing, to acting and back to the word about the act thus achieved. And before the listener can become a listener, something has to happen: he or she must expect.