Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
Interpretation
Imagination fills the gaps left by reality.
This quote suggests that when there is a lack of concrete facts or certainty in life, our imagination and fantasies can fill that void, allowing us to create narratives or beliefs that may not be grounded in reality. It speaks to the human tendency to seek meaning and understanding through imagination, especially in the face of ambiguity or uncertainty.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about creativity in art and literature.
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.
Every single person in this world is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie.
Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.
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