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 imagination is more important than knowledge because it reveals what might be."Weil, Simone
"Imagination is the faculty through which we touch the eternal."Weil, Simone
"Imagination is the faculty that lifts us beyond the mere facts of existence."Moore, George Edward
"Imagination is the precursor to all invention and progress."Moore, George Edward
"Imagination is the faculty through which we glimpse possibilities beyond current reality."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Imagination is the faculty that permits us to escape finitude."Blanchot, Maurice
"Imagination is the faculty of the impossible becoming real."Blanchot, Maurice
"Every historical catastrophe is preceded by a failure of imagination."Arendt, Hannah
"The human spirit is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."Bataille, Georges
"Imagination is the only faculty that makes us human."Bataille, Georges
"Imagination is the faculty through which we encounter the transcendent."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Imagination frees us from the tyranny of the actual."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Imagination is not escape but a meeting with reality's strangeness."Blanchot, Maurice
"Imagination is the faculty that reaches toward the unreachable."Blanchot, Maurice
"Imagination is the faculty through which we access the sacred."Bataille, Georges
"The imagination of the repressed is the only truly dangerous thing."Bataille, Georges
"We must think of the world as it is and as it might become."Gramsci, Antonio
"Imagination is the revolutionary faculty of the mind."Gramsci, Antonio
"Imagination is the faculty that enables us to envision a better world."Lukács, György
"The evils which we suffer from come from lack of imagination."Russell, Bertrand
"The image is what escapes the grasp of understanding."Blanchot, Maurice
"The image conceals as much as it reveals."Blanchot, Maurice
"The image resists interpretation; it demands encounter."Blanchot, Maurice
"The image is what remains when language fails."Blanchot, Maurice
"The image demands we see what we prefer to overlook."Blanchot, Maurice
"Imagination is the revolutionary faculty."Marcuse, Herbert
"Imagination unconstrained by reality creates the future."Marcuse, Herbert
"Imagination is the faculty through which we commune with what we cannot name."Bataille, Georges
"The greatest threat to freedom is the loss of the ability to imagine alternatives."Horkheimer, Max
"Imagination is the faculty most threatened by total administration."Horkheimer, Max