A list of 16 words by betsyshane.
- love appears on 320 other lists
- god appears on 58 other lists
- truth appears on 67 other lists
- real appears on 38 other lists
- authentic appears on 65 other lists
- culture appears on 38 other lists
- purity appears on 10 other lists
- race appears on 28 other lists
- ethnicity appears on 6 other lists
- safe appears on 27 other lists
- alone appears on 40 other lists
- value appears on 38 other lists
- justice appears on 60 other lists
- beauty appears on 62 other lists
- reality appears on 28 other lists
- taste appears on 47 other lists
oroboros ...Consider the word "love". It has many meanings which we recognize as soon as we consider the difference between romantic love and conjugal love, the difference between the love that parents readily bestow upon their children and the love that children slowly develop for their parents. All these meanings of the word — all these kinds of love — have something in common. All are related aspects of a single, very large idea — the idea of love. But as most people employ the word in ordinary speech, they have only a small part of this idea in mind; and when young people use it they seldom have in mind the same part that older people have. Few who use the word ever have the whole idea in mind, for it takes a lifetime of experience and thought to comprehend it fully...
--excerpt from "What is an Idea" by Mortimer Adler, 1958
Dec 27, 2006
tez Magnificent. This list, I mean. I'm not suggesting that the concept of "magnificence" is up for debate... Of course, after a close reading of the above, now I'm beginning to question everything. Dec 27, 2006