Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"The exotic reveals possibilities for being that our own culture may have foreclosed."Clifford Geertz
"Betwixt and between lies the space of infinite possibility, where creativity flourishes."Victor Turner
"Symbols work best when they operate below the threshold of conscious awareness, shaping thought and feeling."Victor Turner
"The betwixt and between is where creativity flourishes because all constraints are temporarily suspended."Victor Turner
"Understanding requires imaginative entry into unfamiliar contexts."Clifford Geertz
"Understanding requires imaginative leap into otherness."Clifford Geertz
"Imagination shapes reality"Gregory Bateson
"The anthropologist must become a child again to see with fresh eyes."Bronislaw Malinowski
"Understanding different cultures expands our sense of what is possible for human beings."A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
"Imagination creates the future of culture."Alfred Kroeber
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Alfred Kroeber
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."Gregory Bateson
"The development of imagination leaves its mark on all intellectual work."Margaret Mead
"The sacred symbol bridges the gap between what is and what might be."Victor Turner
"Imagination is the engine of civilization."Oswald Spengler
"Imagination transcends limitation."Oswald Spengler
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what might be."Gregory Bateson
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what might be in human societies."Bronislaw Malinowski
"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange."Arnold Toynbee
"Each culture has its own internal logic that must be understood on its own terms."A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
"Imagination is the gateway to all possibilities."Christopher Dawson
"Imagination creates the future."Christopher Dawson
"The imagination is the only tool we have to remake the world."Margaret Mead
"Imagination is the space where possibilities reside before they become real."Margaret Mead
"Human societies are experiments in living, ongoing and never final."Alfred Kroeber
"In understanding culture, we expand our sense of the possible."Alfred Kroeber
"In studying culture, we discover that humanity is far more varied than we imagined."Alfred Kroeber
"The imagination is not opposed to reality, but is our primary tool for understanding it."Bronislaw Malinowski
"Imagination is the birthplace of all revolutions, both of spirit and of state."Oswald Spengler
"The mind is a strange land that produces what it dreams."Gregory Bateson