All of this makes it difficult to come up with a definition of " proverb " that is universally applicable, which brings us back to Taylor's observation, " An incommunicable quality tells us this sentence is proverbial and that one is not . ".
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Debord readily admits in his 1961 film " A Critique of Separation ", " The sectors of a city & are decipherable, but the personal meaning they have for us is incommunicable, as is the secrecy of private life in general, regarding which we possess nothing but pitiful documents ".
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The theoretical basis of Fuke-shk was to emphasise the concept of the incommunicable aspect of enlightenment, an ideal traced to various Buddhist sects and relayed in paradoxical Zen writings such as the " Lankavatara Sutra ", the " Diamond Sutra " and Bodhidharma's " Bloodstream sermon ".
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That right is preserved sacred and incommunicable in all instances, where it has not been taken away or abridged by some public law for the good of the whole & If no excuse can be found or produced, the silence of the books is an authority against the defendant, and the plaintiff must have judgment.
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The public perception of philosophy today is closer to the definition of wisdom offered by " The Philosophical Lexicon, " a satirical dictionary compiled by the philosopher Daniel Dennett and published online : " A state of clarity and understanding so complete and exhaustive, yet also so detailed and complex, as to be totally incommunicable ."
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His most famous work was " The Proverb " ( Cambridge, MA 1931 ), which contains his most famous quote, " the definition of a proverb is too difficult to repay the undertaking . . . An incommunicable quality tells us this sentence is proverbial and that is not " ( " The Proverb " p . 3 ).
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In the essay " Sweeney and the Jazz Age, " Carol H . Smith writes, " What Eliot expresses in this fragmentary play is both the agony of the saint and private anguish and rage of the man trapped in a world of demanding relationships with women . . . In Sweeney's story of violence and horror, sexual love leads to spiritual purgation, and yet this theme is by definition incommunicable to a world terrified of death and unaware of anything beyond it ."
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My real life ( if I ever dared to write it ! ) has transpired in darkness, secrecy, fleeting contacts and incommunicable delights, any number of strange picaresque escapades and even crimes, and I don't think that any of my'friends'have even the faintest notion of what I'm really like or have any idea of what my life has really consisted of . . . . With all the surface'respectability,'diplomatic and scholarly and illustrious social contacts, my real life has been subversive, anarchic, vicious, lonely, and capricious ."
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Four of his books were of particular importance : " Christian Nurture " ( 1847 ), in which he virtually opposed revivalism and effectively turned the current of Christian thought toward the young; " Nature and the Supernatural " ( 1858 ), in which he discussed miracles and endeavoured to lift the heretical views as to the Trinity, holding, among other things, that the Godhead is " instrumentally three & mdash; three simply as related to our finite apprehension, and the communication of God's incommunicable nature . " Attempts were made to bring him to trial, but they were unsuccessful, and in 1852 his church unanimously withdrew from the local consociation, thus removing any possibility of further action against him.
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The men enjoyed squeezing into a narrow cavern and reaching " a vault about fifty feet long, ten feet high ", which they examined by candlelight, and comparing the Garden's rock formations to recognizable shapes, including animals and " a statue of Liberty, standing by her escutcheon, with the usual Phrygian cap on her head . " The men were so impressed by the landscape, that " [ i ] t was a great disappointment to some of our kind friends that our artist [ Bierstadt ] did not choose the Garden of the Gods for a'big picture .'It was such an interesting place in nature that they could not understand its unavailability for art . " Ludlow later surmised that, " however impressive it might be outdoors, [ the scenery ] was absolutely incommunicable by paint and canvas ".
