“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”
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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.