George Santayana Quotes About Imagination
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Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.
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A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.
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It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
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