#2,739

People without imagination chill our soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

#2,488

In a hierarchical society imagination’s force is disciplined and does not unhinge the individual as it does in a democratic society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400

#1,921

Authentic history is the transfiguration of the raw event by intelligence and imagination.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,639

Without an alert imagination intelligence runs aground.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,554

Man’s only precious goods are the moldy memories of his imagination.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 259

#1,488

The imagination is not the site where reality is falsified, but where it is fulfilled.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 250

#1,354

Imagination withers away in a society whose cities lack gardens enclosed by high walls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,339

Imagination is the capacity to perceive, through the senses, the attributes of the object which the senses do not perceive.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,299

Imagination, if it were creative, would be simply fantasy.
Imagination is perception of what escapes ordinary perception.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 224

#1,108

It is not enough to imagine something for it to exist, but only what we imagine exists.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 195

#1,107

Photography murdered the imagination.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 195

#1,039

Lack of imagination saves a people from many catastrophes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 185

#1,035

The imagination is the only place in the world where one can dwell.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 184

#1,032

Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 184

#998

Certain things are interesting only when lived, others only when imagined.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 179

#642

Fantasy exploits the discoveries of the imagination.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 119

#305

In a bourgeois country, just as in a Communist land, they disapprove of “escapism” as a solitary vice, as a debilitating and wretched perversion.
Modern society discredits the fugitive so that no one will listen to his account of his journeys. Art or history, man’s imagination or his tragic and noble destiny, these are not criteria which modern mediocrity will tolerate.
“Escapism” is the fleeting vision of abolished splendors and the probability of an implacable verdict on today’s society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 67

#44

Genius is the capacity to make on our stiff, frozen imagination the impact that any book makes on a child’s imagination.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 30