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Letter "I" » imagining
«Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
conscious, enlightenment, figures, imagining, the darkness, the Enlightenment
«Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.»
Author: Dave Foreman
| About:
Environment,
Nature,
Problems
| Keywords:
Cancer, central, central nervous system, environmental, hubris, imagining, nervous, originate, originate in, The central
«Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.»
«Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.»
Author: Shirley Hazzard
| Keywords:
calamity, discount, discounting, drama, Grown up, humbly, imagining, prestigious
«Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.»
Author: Barbara Sher
| Keywords:
avoids, categorically, cautious, defense force, imagining, inside job, quantum, resembling, swimming, too soon
«Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
anticipate, anticipates, condemned, flee, idealize, idealized, idealizing, imaginary, imagining, inhabit, nostalgia, tendency, with nostalgia
«Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| Keywords:
executing, furnishing, furnishings, imagining, immobility, insisting, social change, Social reform, the rebellion
«In seeking wisdom, thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool»
«Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.»
«Or in the night, imagining some fear,How easy is a bush supposed a bear!»
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