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