Quotes by Imagination A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. Benjamin Disraeli opponentspoliticsimagination Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Benjamin Disraeli passionimaginationmen That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. Benjamin Disraeli heatimaginationenthusiasm The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. Benjamin Tucker libertyimaginationdrama I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. Berkeley Breathed imaginationadventureboys I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination. Bernard Baruch intelligenceimaginationinspirational The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination. Bernard Werber new-thoughtimaginationway I apologize for my wild imagination. Bert Cooper apologizingwild-imaginationimagination Imagination is the mightiest despot. Berthold Auerbach despotsimagination One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. Bertrand Russell ignoranceimaginationstupid Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. Bertrand Russell imaginationscienceknowledge It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial. Bertrand Russell progressimaginationmen The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is Bertrand Russell alternativestakenimagination If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Bertrand Russell imaginationideasreligion The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being. Bertrand Russell povertylogicimagination Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active. Bertrand Russell effortimaginationdesire Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good. Bertrand Russell greatnessimaginationphilosophy If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time. Bertrand Russell purposeimaginationheaven Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence. Bertrand Russell imaginationjoyworld We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a lot. We only saw pictures and read zines, so we could only interpret the aesthetic and message of punk scenes around the world. We were basically the duck-billed platypuses of punk. Beth Ditto gayimaginationbaby«1213141516171819202122»
