Without images, one cannot live, except as a machine or a slave. That is why we cling so often even to irrational images, desperately, vengefully. The flag can be such a image.

I believe religion is a matter of devotion to images. Only our secular understanding of images is very shallow, and the intellectual prides himself on dismissing divine images something like superstition or wishful fantasy.

True images do not analyze . They resonate, they coalesce, they metamorphose. This is their mystery, which the analytical mind is always trying to reduce.