Imagination Quotes

"Imagination is not decoration; it is fundamental to how we understand reality."

"The imagination cannot be educated out of us, though institutions often try."

"Imagination dies when everything becomes predictable and calculable."

"The greatest threat to freedom is the loss of the capacity to imagine alternatives."

"Political imagination requires the capacity to envision different forms of order."

"Imagination creates reality."

"The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in a void space."

"The more the culture industry expands, the less space remains for authentic experience."

"Difference is systematically produced and then systematically erased by the culture industry."

"The culture industry speaks of diversity while producing uniformity."

"The culture industry does not suppress desire; it channels it into safe, profitable forms."

"Mass culture is the culture of the mass who have been taught to want mass culture."

"The capacity to imagine how things might be is what separates us from other animals."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, but both are necessary."

"The capacity to feel the past is what distinguishes humans from animals."

"Understanding requires imagination more than it requires knowledge."

"The imagination is not a luxury but a necessity of life."

"The imagination can show us what is wrong with the world and what might be right with it."

"Imagination is the condition for the possibility of knowledge."

"Imagination is the lowest form of understanding."

"Imagination is the power to see what does not yet exist"

"We are like chameleons, taking our hue from the things we contemplate."

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"What a dull life the mind leads if it be always employed about one subject."

"Imagination is but the first operation of the two needy virtues called wonder and astonishment."

"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not"

"The mind being therefore a kind of theatre of perceptions"

"The imagination is the faculty that reconciles contradictions."

"Imagination bridges the gap between the real and the ideal."