An example of this, if you like, is the psychopathology of everyday life: every child now understands the patterns of the Freudian slip - this is a probe, not a package.

You take a statement and turn it around, using it as probe into the environment instead of using it descriptively—as a means of packaging information, already picked up—the idea of using language and statement as probe in this sense just baffles [my critics].

Lewis Carroll makes inventories of effects as causes that relate modes of dynamic perception. They are neither definitions of concepts nor expressions of opinion, since all patterns of perception merge and metamorphose in the very act of exploration and discovery. They avoid value judgments, and serve as guides to insight and to comprehension through re-cognition of the dynamic structures that occur in all processes. In replaying such patterns we are not taking any side but many sides, also the inside.

The keys to comprehending the data, the “keys to given,” in any headache are also the “keys to heaven”: when the hang-up is recognized as comic, it opens the door of perception that can transform all previous relationship and release tensions.

Our time is a time for crossing barriers, for erasing old categories—for probing around. When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised, put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result. 

You have to push any idea to an extreme, you have to probe.

The literary quotations I use in the [Gutenberg] Galaxy are not intended as footnotes or as part of my argument. They are there as heuristic probes. I could substitute for any one of those quotes twenty or thirty other citations.

Modern art, whether in painting or poetry or music, began as a probe and not as a package.

And whereas the package belongs to a consumer age, the probe belongs to an age of experimenters.

The inner trip has been ecological and Oriental. Both kinds of trips are cliche-probes

The reader wears the mask of the poet's work even as the author puts on the public as a mask. One is probe for the other.

Retrieving the figure of Machiavelli, it uses this as a probe of modern management techniques.

The modern allegory, like Kafka's The Trial or The Castle, again probes both the totalitarian and the anti-totalitarian reader. Most works of art have a quasi-allegorical quality.