Verbatim quote · defining passage

“So, to get started, thinking is obeying the imperative to suspend all imperatives: in this suspension, imperatives approach or occur to one, appearing as possibilities which the thinker in his/her detachment follows; ultimately, the emergence of one imperative after another leads us to the founding imperative of thought, to cease obeying commands directing us to efface the ostensive sign.”

— Adam Katz, Idioms of Inquiry · Jul 2009 · GABlog