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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.

Man Creates What He Calls History As A Screen To Conceal The Workings Of The Apocalypse From Himself.

We Find Rhetorical Situations Everywhere In Life, And Only Our Imaginations Can Get Us Out Of Them.

Between Religion's This Is And Poetry's But Suppose This Is, There Must Always Be Some Kind Of Tension, Until The Possible And The Actual Meet At Infinity.

A Person Who Knows Nothing About Literature May Be An Ignoramus, But Many People Don't Mind Being That.