"Mysteries are the food of the mind, and all the fundamental mysteries are necessary to sanity."
— Richards, I.A. (1893-1979)
Author
Date
November 12, 1973
Metaphor
"Mysteries are the food of the mind, and all the fundamental mysteries are necessary to sanity."
Metaphor in Context
"I'm an inventor," he said in Cambridge, Mass., referring to his tricks for teaching. "And I'm a philosopher. At Cambridge University studied what we called mental and moral sciences. That made one familiar with the incomprehensible. Mysteries are the food of the mind, and all the fundamental mysteries are necessary to sanity. In asylums you meet people who have the answers; sane people never have the answers."
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Israel Shenkerov, "At 80, I. A. Richards Still Scales Mountains of the Mind"
(November 12, 1973). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
11/17/2017
