“The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.”
Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 1984 (1984)
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From the poems written in English
All thinking is, accordingly, formation of new mind masses.
Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)
You Would Have Understood Me
“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
“Thought is not bred apart from experience or from inner surroundings.”
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Manipulation and appreciation, p. 81 -->
Context: The sense of meaning is not born in ease and sloth. It comes after bitter trials, disappointments in the glitters, foundering, strandings. It is the marrow from the bone. There is no manna in our wilderness.
Thought is not bred apart from experience or from inner surroundings. Thinking is living, and no thought is bred in an isolated cell in the brain. No thought is an island.
“Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.”
