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“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

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“It is working for God, not a boss. Maybe you will get a raise in consciousness.”

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Book:Digging for God

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“There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it. I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way melody can transform mood. They can't transform your actual situation, but they can transform your experience of it. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.”

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Book:What It Is

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“The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.”

Book:Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings

Source: Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings

“It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”

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Book:Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Source: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”

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Book:Orthodoxy

Source: Orthodoxy

“Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains. ( " Labyrinth of the mind " )”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie

“People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. ( "The hidden sides of his character" )”

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“...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.”

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Book:Transformation of Man

Source: Transformation of Man

“When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ("Back garden of a dream")”

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“People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.”

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Book:Turtles All the Way Down

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