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“Generally, education is to curiosity what circumcision is to the foreskin.”

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“We need to think of imagination not as the faculty that produces visual or auditory images but as a combination of novelty and luck. To be imaginative, as opposed to being merely fantastical is to do something new and to be lucky enough to have that novelty be adopted by one's fellow humans, incorporated into their social practices.”

Philosophy Imagination Creativity Luck Novelty Pragmatism

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“...nature itself is a poem that we humans have written [...and] the imagination is the principle vehicle of human progress.”

Poetry Nature Imagination Progress Pragmatism

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“The mind is incapable of refusing to be used as best as it is capable of being used.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life, he supposes, is like that – not simply a catalogue of events, but an internal narrative that imposes shape and order on those events, and adds and subtracts, and lends meaning where there is none. And if one makes no attempt to separate invention from reality, or to impose some discipline on that inner storyteller, one might wonder whether one has in fact lived dozens of lives, countless lives. Reality, he thinks, is not the same as the truth.”

Reality Imagination Memory Imagination Quotes Memory Quote Memory And Imagination

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Source: Loving Imogen

“Nothing new or innovative is created without a stretch of the imagination. Reach your goals by reaching for the sky with some brain stretches of the imagination every day.”

Imagination Imagine Goals Create Innovative New Stretch Disruptive Innovation Disrupt

Author:Richie Norton

“What good was escaping into one's imagination if the world's problems came along for the ride?”

Imagination Escape

Book:A Return of Devotion

Source: A Return of Devotion

“Even with imagination, there is still nation.”

Culture Imagination Nation Xenophobia Strangers Foreign

Book:running is flying intermittently

Source: running is flying intermittently

“Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.”

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Book:The Graveyard Book

Source: The Graveyard Book

“...When he puts a thing on a pedestal and calls it beautiful, he demands the same delight from others. He judges not merely for himself, but for all men, and then speaks of beauty as if it were the property of things.”

Philosophy Kant Critique Of Judgment

Book:Critique of Judgment

Source: Critique of Judgment

“...and since the beginning of human history the soldier and the poet had shared great (or terrible) imaginations that remade their surroundings.”

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Source: The Dante Chamber