We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Talk your talk and go viral
I just need this love spiral
Get it off your chest
Get it off my desk
(Ooh-whoa)

Modern “secularization” can be seen from one angle as the rejection of higher times, and the positing of time as purely profane.

I don’t know about you
But I’m feeling twenty-two!

Our language has lost its constitutive power. This means that we can deal instrumentally with realities around us, but their deeper meaning is ignored and often invisible to us.

I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now
Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead (oh)

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life.

But I keep cruisin'
Can't stop, won't stop movin'
It's like I got this music in my mind
Sayin' it's gonna be alright

Following one good to the end may be catastrophic, not because it isn't a good, but because there are others which can't be sacrificed without evil.

Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday. But I realized some bigger dreams of mine.