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“Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.”

Humans America Dies Imagination Human Beings Animal Cities Worst Holes Capitalist Primitive Wounded Jungle Slums Inner City Wounded Animal

Book:Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

Source: Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

“The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.”

“Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.”

Men Children Different Imagination Animal Creative Intellectual Men And Women Weak Intellect Active Former Fancy Latter Faculty Possessed Passive Great Imagination

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.”

Way Easy Difficult Imagination Animal Progress Genius Scientist Workers Animal Rights Dedication Devoted Wholesale Vivisection Scientific Progress

Book:Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings

Source: Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings

“I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.”

Source: Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean

“People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.”

People Way Reason Past Belief Imagination Animal Behavior Moved Making Changes

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.”

Ifs Humans Imagination Animal Being Human Alzheimer Human Animal Alzheimer's

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.”

Use Inspiration Sound Imagination Animal Speech Tools Constructs

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.”

Men Able Language Imagination Ability Animal Communication Capacity Organization Size Abstract Complexity Lives Of Others

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.”

Knows Men Two Ideas Different Body Would Be Together Turns Universe Imagination Animal United Class Taken Impossible Essentials Plant Senses Disorder Imperfection Linked Curves Fossils

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.”

“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.”

Way Humans Feelings Past Life Is Certain Imagination Human Beings Loss Ability Animal Quality Terror Disaster Indifference Streams Accurate Intuitive Rabbits Callousness

Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.”

Humans Given Imagination Animal Intellect Alcohol Beer Superiority Stimulus Funny Beer

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.”

Men May Soul Body Spirit Imagination Animal Acting Produce Materials Masters Disease Tools Medicine Factors Cures Plastic Remedy

Author:Paracelsus

“To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.”

World Mind Ends Imagination Animal Speech Substance Diets Psychedelic Synergy Psilocybin Hominids

Author:Terence McKenna