“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.” ThinkingDoeReasonSeemsFallForceSocialNumbersStruggleImagineImpossibleFindingsRelationCirclesReason WhyContractsPerpetualFall BackSocial ContractAbsolutismPerpetual Motion Book:General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century Source: General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
“Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.” PeopleIfsWorldNationsUnderstandingDifferencesLinesSawsImagineRelationHidingDivides Author:Wesley Clark
“I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.” MayPresidentImagineBrotherProveRelationScoreCastro Author:Mark Falcoff
“You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.” KnowsLooksPersonsHas BeensNightImagineRelationshipOne DayRelationRootedLove RelationshipX FilesRomantic RelationshipLove And RelationshipJust FriendsTroubled RelationshipCasual Relationships Author:Gillian Anderson
“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.” KnowsShouldMindWholeAbleDesireHateBeliefWishInterestAttitudeImagineEmotionalMaterialsNegativeRelationDeterminedBiasSubjectiveSweepingLove And HateSuppressionPreconceptionsFear Of LoveHopes And FearsEmotional Life Book:Mysticism and Logic Source: Mysticism and Logic
“The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.” PersonsEasyPerfectImagineRelationImagine ThatPerfect Life Author:Miranda July
“So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.” WorldHumansDifferentTogetherChallengesWealthImagineBalanceRelationHuman RelationsDifferent Worlds Author:David Suzuki
“We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.” PeopleMenNeedsHas BeensWould BeFacesImagineExampleObjectsColorWallPhotographyRelationRegardPhotographLandscapeProportionInhuman Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.” ThinkingMenChildrenMadeSelfMotherChoicesNamesRoomsWifeImagineReadyRelationChosenFamiliarYour Freedom Author:Adrienne Rich
“The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.” ThinkingTryingMatterHardFactsAbleTimeImaginationImagineRelationCertainty Author:Barry Long