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