"There must be room for the imagination to……" — William Godwin
"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."
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69 Quotes by William Godwin
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- Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and…
- Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
- My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full…
- Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
- Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
- Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well…
- Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
- The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
- He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.
- Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
- Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by…
- Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.