Imagination Quotes

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

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"In imagination lies the seed of all human progress and creation."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Imagination is the faculty through which we transcend our present limitations."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Imagination is the gateway to the infinite."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"There is no greater spur to the imagination than the desire to make others happy."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"If I were to wish for anything, I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Ideas that appeal to the imagination are more powerful than ideas based on reason alone."
Marx, Karl
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine it."
Marx, Karl
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"The imagination is the creative faculty of the human mind."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Imagination is the image-forming capacity of spirit."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Berkeley, George
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"A human being is capable of being and doing vastly more than they themselves realize."
Mill, John Stuart
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"The imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Imagination without knowledge is confusion; knowledge without imagination is sterility."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"A thought comes when 'it' wishes, and not when 'I' wish, so that a thought comes a guest and uninvited."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Ultimately, man finds only what he himself brings to the contemplation of things."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Imagination is the foundation of all creative thought."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Imagination and reason are not opponents but partners in the pursuit of understanding."
Berkeley, George
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"The mind's eye can see further than the bodily eye ever could."
Berkeley, George
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"The mind's reach exceeds what the senses alone can provide us."
Berkeley, George
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"Extraordinary affections must proceed from some uncommon turn of imagination."
Hume, David
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"Imagination is the bridge between reason and intuition."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The human condition is characterized by the faculty of imagining improvements."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Imagination is the powerful instrument for the creation of new ideas."
Kant, Immanuel
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"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Imagination is the foundation of all knowledge and all progress."
Berkeley, George
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
Locke, John
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"The faculty of imagination is the greatest blessing of mankind."
Locke, John
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Imagination is the seed of innovation."
Leibniz, Gottfried