Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.
Imagination Quotes
Wallace Stevens has the most entries, then Shakespeare, Skye Jethani, the Filipino poet Gémino Abad and Joseph Joubert. The line everyone wants is Einstein’s “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” which comes from a 1929 interview with George Sylvester Viereck, where he says he is enough of an artist to draw freely upon it. Emerson, in Letters and Social Aims (1876), says science does not know its debt to imagination, and Thoreau, in 1849, calls the world canvas to our imaginations.
Three entries are flagged. The line about computers being fast, accurate and stupid, humans slow, inaccurate and brilliant, is credited to Einstein and marked misattributed. Bacon is credited with a line on imagination and a sense of humor, and Poe with a remark about religion, both disputed; the notes put the Poe remark in a 1901 biography that has been much criticized.
"Poetry seems to capture my imagination the most when it comes to creative writing."
Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled.
“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
To speak with his imagination, but to think with his reason.
History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.