Barfield Quotes

#1. As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.

David C. Downing

#2. He grinned. "You're easy, I like that."
I didn't really have a response. I guess I was easy.

Katherine Pine

#3. Throughout history every great empire has collapsed...there have been no exceptions.

Joe Barfield

#4. True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment,

Owen Barfield

#5. If people say the world we perceive is a 'construct' of our brains, they are saying in effect, that it results from an inveterate habit of thought. Why does it never occur to them that a habit is something you can overcome, if you set about it with enough energy?

Owen Barfield

#6. To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

Melissa Leo

#7. Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.

Eula Biss

#8. And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

Owen Barfield

#9. I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

Jesse Barfield

#10. War is capitalism with the gloves off

Tom Stoppard

#11. The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

Owen Barfield

#12. Library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books ...

Owen Barfield

#13. Every day ask yourself, What would I do today if I were a better person?

Robert Breault

#14. Because without the lows, the highs would
seem pointless.

A.P. Sweet

#15. The poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

Owen Barfield

#16. When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

Owen Barfield

#17. The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.

B.R. Ambedkar

#18. Though love is a not a fight, its something worth fighting for.

Warren Barfield

#19. There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

Owen Barfield

#20. She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#21. The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.

Norm MacDonald

#22. When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

Owen Barfield

#23. One time I dropped a fly ball in Milwaukee and, after the game, the writers asked me what happened. I told them, 'Well, I was looking up and a UFO flew right across. It was weird. I never saw anything like that in my life.' Man, I was only joking and they wrote it up and put it in the paper.

Jesse Barfield

#24. In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.

Owen Barfield

#25. You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

Arthur Miller

#26. One of his closest friends, Owen Barfield, once said of Lewis that "what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything."12

Michael Ward

#27. Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

Philip Zaleski

#28. The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian," Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.

Philip Zaleski

#29. We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.

Owen Barfield