Sentences with phrase «in ineffability»

Death transcends the powers of reason and shrouds itself in ineffability.

Not exact matches

The mystic is cautious in the use of models; he is likely to stress the ineffability of the experience.

Even in this sense transcendence may have all the depth and richness I at least could ask: mystery, ineffability, ecstasy, reunion and reconciliation, worlds upon worlds of various sorts and stages of existence, an ideal order of which our experiences of truth, beauty and goodness are fragmentary glimpses.

But the question whether God is only unapproachable ineffability must be answered in the negative.

That's not surprising, because as William James pointed out in «The Varieties of Religious Experience», two of the defining qualities of mystical experience are noetic quality and ineffability.

St. Augustine recognized that in discoursing at length about the ineffability of the Trinity he was trying only to make people understand that nothing can be said about it at all.

In its exposure to surprise, genuine hope yields to the future in a way that allows the latter to retain its «otherness» and ineffabilitIn its exposure to surprise, genuine hope yields to the future in a way that allows the latter to retain its «otherness» and ineffabilitin a way that allows the latter to retain its «otherness» and ineffability.

My comments are more about ineffability in general than your cartoon.

Turning its back on illusionism and allegory, this kind of art attempts to define its own universe of meanings, and in the polemical act of purifying itself from extraneously derived languages and imageries, aspires to ineffability.»

Case in point: his Work No. 202: Half the air in a given space, 1998, whose Robert Barry-esque ineffability (compare that artist's designation as works, in 1969, of quantities of inert gases released into the atmosphere) is belied by the infantine delight of seeing it embodied by thousands of party balloons.

Reflecting on a work of art can open up conceptual meaning, but if we can suspend our preconceptions in the actual encounter, we can enter a state of contemplation, rather than reflection, in which we experience the nature of what is actually there — its ineffability, its inability to be pinned down, or somehow defined or even known.