Clear Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

“Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious…

— John Armstrong

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch of the…

— Jeffrey Hopkins

A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he…

— John Stuart Mill

“Imagination can create lies that duals truths.”

— Lionel Suggs

In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will…

— Edward Forbes

“I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts. The first is that our perceptions being every thing for us, we…

— Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of…

— Joseph Conrad

It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility…

— George Eliot

“although apologetics is ‘a reasoned defence’, its basis is necessarily imaginative, for reason cannot work without imagination.”

— Andrew Davison

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

— Alfred North Whitehead