Imagination Quote by C. S. Lewis

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is…

— Anonymous

“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16”

— Sarah Arthur

Reason is nothing without imagination.

— Rene Descartes

Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the…

— Richard Tarnas

Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and…

— Henry Norman Hudson

The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious…

— Edward Hirsch

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

— John Searle

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

— William Wordsworth

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes…

— James Russell Lowell

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

— Wallace Stevens