The development of the mind comes through movement
Thinking is movement confined to the brain
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.
The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
