The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.

The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.