Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"Language does not simply describe reality but constructs it"Edward Said
"Imagination is not escapism but a tool for envisioning alternative futures."Félix Guattari
"Becoming-animal, becoming-machine, becoming-molecular all open new possibilities."Félix Guattari
"Imagination is the capacity to think what has never been thought before"Gilles Deleuze
"The virtual is the space of potential becomings"Gilles Deleuze
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it differently."Giorgio Agamben
"Imagination is not an escape from reality but its deepest truth."Slavoj Žižek
"To imagine the other ethically is to acknowledge what we cannot represent."Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
"The future remains open to those who can imagine otherwise."Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
"We must think the impossible to change the inevitable."Slavoj Žižek
"Imagination is the last refuge of the truly sane."Slavoj Žižek
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it."Félix Guattari
"Potentiality is more important than actuality."Félix Guattari
"The future is already here; it is just unevenly distributed."Félix Guattari
"The real is stranger than any fiction."Félix Guattari
"The infinite regress is actually infinite possibility."Félix Guattari
"The virtual birth is more real than the actual."Félix Guattari
"The future is now a question of molecular engineering."Félix Guattari
"Thought must negate what is in order to imagine what could be."Max Horkheimer
"Imagination is the faculty that liberates us from presence."Giorgio Agamben
"To imagine is to actualize; imagination is not escape but the creation of reality."Gilles Deleuze
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it in radically new ways."Félix Guattari
"The impossible is what we must think."Jacques Derrida
"We must think without concepts."Jacques Derrida
"Imagination is the faculty most consistently destroyed by the culture industry."Max Horkheimer
"You don't think the earth or the body have exhausted their constituent possibilities."Gilles Deleuze
"Mimesis—the capacity to imitate—is forbidden in a fully rationalized society."Theodor Adorno
"The greatest minds are not the most powerful, but the most imaginative."Isaiah Berlin
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Isaiah Berlin
"The highest human capacity is the ability to begin something new."Hannah Arendt