#nation

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harvard-commencement-speech #imagination #magic #change

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity. ↗

— Carl Schmitt

#democracy #equality #nationalism #politics #racism

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. ↗

— Henry James

#imagination

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#longing #love #imagination

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ↗

— Carl Jung

#darkness #enlightenment #light #imagination

Good photographs are taken not with the camera. Good photographs are taken with Mind, Soul, Eyes, and Imagination where Eyes like a shutter, Mind like a lens, Imagination like an object and Soul like a canvas. ↗

— Parveen Sharma

#photo #photography #pictures #imagination

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#philosophy #reflection #imagination

Never outgrow your imagination. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#inspiration #imagination

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#science #skepticism #imagination

[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#imagination