“Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.” FirstsReasonDreamTodayInterestAchieveCenturyHigherMajorsFirst TimeDirectLogicCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVisualsDimensionsAncestorOntology Author:Thomas Banchoff
“If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.” IfsWorldWayMindHumansChildrenArtDreamCommonLimitsDrawsArt IsLogicCommon SenseImmortalWorks Of Art Author:Giorgio de Chirico
“From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. ... Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?” ShouldDreamStudyInfluenceModernTheoryLogicSpecialistsSemanticsForeshadowing Book:The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn Source: The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn
“fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.” MindChildrenReasonDreamLanguageImaginationLogicImagination And Dreams Author:Caroline Myss
“The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained.” PeopleThinkingMeanChildrenDreamShareCrazyMinesHusbandBehaviorLogicMadnessPatientEdgesInsaneI've LearnedProfessorsBe PatientTeaseCrazy PeopleUnmotivated Book:The Woman Upstairs Source: The Woman Upstairs