| I later came to think of them as the artist's revenge against the givenness of life. |
| Kant argued like Descartes from the existence of individual consciousness rather than from the givenness of a God found in revelation. |
| In order for there to be a givenness of the act by means of which I bring to mind the visual image of a word, there has first to be a break in the way things are given. |
| To suggest that revelation is a peculiar mode of givenness is to say that the divine or the holy is given to the person in a unique manner that is wholly distinct from perceived objects or rational judgments. |
| Human sensuality by its nature is intelligent, full of senses, but it does not mean that such intelligentness is completely unconditional givenness. |
