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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.

How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.