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“I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?”

World Ideas Feelings Lying Taken Understood Symbols Bottles Milk

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?”

Men Doe Art Ideas Use Would Be Form Lying Values Order Symbols Penetrate Dormant

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.”

Lying Intention Symbols Gaps Twisted Spoken Word

Book:Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions

Source: Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions

“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

“The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.”

Lying Interest Essence Edges Spots Symbols Horizon Unseen

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”

Humans Real Truth Lying Values Human Beings Kindness Honesty Thousand Relation Philosopher Pursue Symbols Being Real Mathematician Human Relations Real Value

Book:The Heart of The Matter

Source: The Heart of The Matter