Imagination Quote by Alexander von Humboldt

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

— Plato

“naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.”

— David Bentley Hart

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

— Humphry Davy

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

— William Blake

“There is, it must be confessed, a curious fascination in hearing deep things talked about, even tho neither we nor the disputants understand them.…

— William James

“Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of…

— Gilles Deleuze

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

— Richard P. Feynman

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

— Napoleon Hill