Beast Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself…

— Karl Jaspers

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and…

— Thomas Merton

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

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

— Aristotle

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and…

— Francis Bacon

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Imagination is just what others use to get things they can't understand into their heads. Rarely – if ever – do they actually fit there. -Hermes”

— Brian Azzarello

“And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic…

— Jacob Bronowski

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

— Donald Curtis

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical…

— Albert Einstein

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

— Ken Robinson