Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

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"Literature creates spaces for alternative possibilities."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Literature creates space for those excluded from representation."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"The intellectual's pen is mightier than any weapon of war."
Aimé Césaire
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"The imagination of oppressed peoples creates revolutions."
Aimé Césaire
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"Thinking like a mountain requires imagination and intellectual humility."
Aldo Leopold
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"Imagination is the bridge between the actual and the possible."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Imagination is not escape but necessary thought."
Slavoj Žižek
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"We must imagine ourselves into freedom."
Aimé Césaire
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"We transform the world through our vision."
Aimé Césaire
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"Imagination is the key that unlocks infinite possibilities within ourselves."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Literature offers possibilities that theory cannot fully exhaust."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"In reading widely, we cultivate the capacity for imaginative sympathy."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"We must develop new vocabularies to speak of forms of knowledge the university disallows."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"What cannot be represented persists as a kind of hauntological presence."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Translation is always a form of creative interpretation, not mere transfer of meaning."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Imagination is the faculty that reveals what reason cannot access."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Imagination is the faculty through which we become fully human."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Resistance requires imagination, creativity, and a refusal to accept domination."
Edward Said
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"We must learn to think beyond the boundaries of nation and culture."
Edward Said
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"We must imagine possibilities beyond what currently exists, beyond what seems natural."
Edward Said
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"We must think beyond dichotomies of East and West, self and other."
Edward Said
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"Cartography is the art of mapping possible worlds."
Félix Guattari
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"Desire machines are everywhere; they work while we sleep."
Félix Guattari
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"We must invent new ways of perceiving reality."
Félix Guattari
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"Imagination is the faculty that liberates us from the present."
Félix Guattari
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"One must think the impossible."
Jacques Derrida
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"Imagination is more real than reality."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Imagination is not escape from reality; it is a tool to understand it."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Imagination is the space where what is not yet real becomes possible."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Language shapes what we can think and imagine"
Edward Said