Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

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"Meaning is not found, but created through experience."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"Imagination is not escape from reality, but a way of engaging with it."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The mind of man is capable of anything"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Imagination is dialectical"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Chaos is not disorder but a state of infinite potential."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine it differently."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"The virtual contains infinite possibilities waiting to become actual."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Imagination is not escape from reality but a different engagement with it."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"The best ideas come from places we did not expect to look."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"The horizon is not a boundary but an openness."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The imagination is the key to understanding consciousness."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Imagination is not escape from reality; it is a practice of reality."
Foucault, Michel
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"We are always free to create meaning in a fundamentally meaningless universe."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Imagination is the power to make the absent present."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"We have the ability to think about counterfactual situations"
Kripke, Saul
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"To think differently, we must first make strange the familiar categories that structure our perception of the world."
Foucault, Michel
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"We must learn to think in new ways, to create concepts and frameworks that have yet to be imagined."
Foucault, Michel
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"To live differently, we must first imagine differently; imagination is the precondition for transformation."
Foucault, Michel
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"Imagination is not a luxury but a necessity, a faculty we must develop in order to think beyond the present."
Foucault, Michel
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"The imagination is more important than knowledge."
Popper, Karl
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"To imagine is not to dream but to act in the space of possibility."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Imagination is constrained by the limits of human experience."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Imagination is limited by the boundaries of human experience."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
Quine, Willard Van Orman
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"Imagination is more important than accurate knowledge of the way things are."
Popper, Karl
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"Imagination allows us to transcend the limits of present experience."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"The attempt to replace imagination by facts, by observation, is absurd."
Popper, Karl
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge, but it is also more dangerous."
Popper, Karl
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"The future belongs to those who can think in new ways."
Heidegger, Martin
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"What is thinkable is also possible."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig