My Subject Is The Educated Imagination, And

The Operations Of The Human Mind Are Also Controlled By Words Of Power, Formulas That Become A Focus Of Mental Activity.

The First Thing That Confronts Us In Studying Verbal Structures Is That They Are Arranged Sequentially, And Have To Be Read Or Listened To In Time.

I Soon Realized That A Student Of English Literature Who Does Not Know The Bible Does Not Understand A Good Deal Of What Is Going On In What He Reads: The Most Conscientous Student Will Be Continually Misconstruing The Implications, Even The Meaning.

Science Begins With The World We Have To Live In, Accepting Its Data And Trying To Explain Its Laws. From There, It Moves Toward The Imagination: It Becomes A Mental Construct, A Model Of A Possible Way Of Interpreting Experience. The Further It Goes In This Direction, The More It Tends To Speak The Language Of Mathematics, Which Is Really One Of The Languages Of The Imagination, Along With Literature And Music. Art, On The Other Hand, Begins With The World We Construct, Not With The World We See. It Starts With The Imagination, And Then Works Toward Ordinary Experience.

Most Of My Writing Consists Of An Attempt To Translate Aphorisms Into Continuous Prose.