despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the futility of trying to impose rigid categories on complex realities.
Trinh T. Minh-Ha's quote captures the essence of how our attempts to classify and separate experiences or ideas often fail, as they are inherently fluid and interconnected. Despite our best efforts to create boundaries and definitions, the complexities of life ensure that these categories cannot hold, as they leak into one another, revealing the interconnectedness of existence.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about identity and classification.
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.
When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
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