Sense – “Is language the adequate expression of all realities?” I have often thought about this in my latter years of adulthood. I have held people less accountable for what they think they are expressing through language. I have also realized my own inability to really translate my energy through sounds and words. It’s frustrating. It is also a beautiful thing that language exists, even if we hold the many concepts of words to such a high value of absolute truth, we can sound off interpretations of what we think we are meaning to say. How else would I be able to respond to the reading without understanding these concepts from the pages? I think he is talking about how it was inevitable that humans created these concepts because it’s human nature to make sense of the senseless or meaningless through art and creativity, and from that stemmed the birth of language.
“The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself.”
Nonsense –
“Indeed, it is only by means of the rigid and regular web of concepts that the waking man clearly sees that he is awake; and it is precisely because of this that he sometimes thinks that he must be dreaming when this web of concepts is torn by art.”
I think this is both a sense and a nonsense, but I’ll yap about the slight nonsense. I believe that when I witness “when this web of concepts is torn by art” I feel more awake than a dream, and that I feel that I am succumbing to “lies and truth” by believing in the web of concepts and therefore dreaming.