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“The imagination, to repeat, makes real to the mind what the mind abstracts from our experience, what the mind perceives or intuits in the world.”

— Gémino H. Abad

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“To write, then, is to get real, to breathe life into language.”

"Poetry is the most human of arts, for it is language itself that makes us human.”

"Man is the only being among other beings on earth that seeks truth in knowledge.”

“Every reader apprehends that meaningfulness or diwa in light of his own life experience, in his own historical time and cultural space.”

"Truth-seeking, then, is his being or essence as human.”

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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