The Art of Thought

mind-and-cognition

• The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence awakens to transitory brightness; the conscious portions are unprophetic of its approach or departure.

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• The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on its tail, slowly sinking and returning to the profound darkness it has momentarily lit.

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• A foreconscious train of association leads to a point revealing the need of action — the click feeling that signals a solution has surfaced to full consciousness.

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education-and-formation

• Experience shows teaching any function is sterilized if separated from doing; should democracies offer special opportunities to a small minority of future professional thinkers?

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• Scattered among the schools, one or two perhaps for each big school, would be the potential thinkers of the nation — those who might have been Shelley.

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calling

• Men have increased power over Nature without increasing control of that power by thought — we can make war more efficiently but cannot prevent war.

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