To Drive Out The Darkness, Bring In

To Perceive Means To Immobilize. To Say This Is To Say That We Seize, In The Act Of Perception, Something Which Outruns Perception Itself.

In Just The Same Way The Thousands Of Successive Positions Of A Runner Are Contracted Into One Sole Symbolic Attitude, Which Our Eye Perceives, Which Art Reproduces, And Which Becomes For Everyone The Image Of A Man Who Runs.

I Cannot Escape The Objection That There Is No State Of Mind, However Simple, That Does Not Change Every Moment

Action On The Move Creates Its Own Route, Creates To A Very Great Extent The Conditions Under Which It Is To Be Fulfilled And Thus Baffles All Calculation.

Knowledge, In So Far As It Is Directed To Practical Matters, Has Only To Enumerate The Principal Possible Attitudes Of The Thing Towards Us, As Well As Our Best Possible Attitude Towards It. Therein Lies The Ordinary Function Of Ready-made Concepts, Those Stations With Which We Mark Out The Path Of Becoming. But To Seek To Penetrate With Them Into The Inmost Nature Of Things, Is To Apply To The Mobility Of The Real A Method Created In Order To Give Stationary Points Of Observation On It.