A Person Who Knows Nothing

The World Of Literature Is A World Where There Is No Reality Except That Of The Human Imagination.

Every Human Society Possesses A Mythology Which Is Inherited, Transmitted And Diversified By Literature.

A Person Who Knows Nothing About Literature May Be An Ignoramus, But Many People Don't Mind Being That.

Science Begins With The World We Have To Live In, Accepting Its Data And Trying To Explain Its Laws. From There, It Moves Toward The Imagination: It Becomes A Mental Construct, A Model Of A Possible Way Of Interpreting Experience. The Further It Goes In This Direction, The More It Tends To Speak The Language Of Mathematics, Which Is Really One Of The Languages Of The Imagination, Along With Literature And Music. Art, On The Other Hand, Begins With The World We Construct, Not With The World We See. It Starts With The Imagination, And Then Works Toward Ordinary Experience.

There Is Only One Way To Degrade Mankind Permanently And That Is To Destroy Language.