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“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.”

Source: Kora in Hell: Improvisations

“Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.”

Ifs Needs Success Values Belief Imagination Vision Succeed Agree Internals Flood

Book:Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate

Source: Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate

“Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.”

Dream Values Games Imagination Communication Activity Aesthetic Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Milan Kundera

“As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.”

World Needs Looks Real Facts Stories Beautiful Values Imagination Streets This World Spring Blue Ugly Fairy Rooted Mist Happy Endings Materialistic Callous Fairy Stories

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

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Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.”

Self Dream Might Values Passion Imagination Youth Glory Ideals Perfection Pursuit Urges Adolescence Boundless Absorption Self Absorption Personalized Self Perfection

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”

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Author:Elihu Thomson