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.
Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
It's not speech per se that allows democracies to function, but the ability to agree - eventually, at least some of the time - on what is true, what is important and what serves the public good. This doesn't mean everyone must agree on every fact, or that our priorities are necessarily uniform.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.
It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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