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“The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.”

Two Imagination Promise Tasks Relation Biographies Sociological

Book:The Sociological Imagination

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.”

Spiritual Motivation Found Grows Growth Imagination Doubt Promise Ego Profound Ideology Certainty Expansion Truism New Knowledge Dispelling

Author:James Hollis

“The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.”

Want Persons Imagination Pleasure Tree Building Circumstances Promise Taste Equal Perfection Plant Suits Variety Lasting Decay Annuals

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

“Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there).”

Source: Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space

“A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.”

Persons Made Able Strong Imagination Memories Quality Morality Promise Intellect Pity Tied Good Memories

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.”

Men Dream Reality Religion Imagination Vision Atheism Stage Higher Involved Promise God Love Ecstasy Kill Me Great Hope Novices

Author:Voltaire

“I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.”

Years Long Has Beens Given Imagination Race Records Please Promise Determined Ancestor Vivid Prospects I Am Determined Vivid Imagination

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.”

Made Sometimes Bigs Reality Running Imagination Technology Promise Awe Running Away Far Away Robots Robotics Awe Inspiring

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”

World Reality Imagination Rocks Promise Wings Fairy Outlets Hints Ineffable Reverie Unreality

Book:(The Great Gatsby)

Source: (The Great Gatsby)

“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”

Ifs Needs Littles Book Enough Reading Imagination Promise New Books

Author:Italo Calvino