Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.
Interpretation
Imagination allows us to perceive the world in profound ways beyond mere study, enabling a deeper understanding of realities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of imagination as a powerful tool for perception and understanding. He suggests that true insight comes not just from academic study, but from the intellect's ability to connect with and share the essence of things. By engaging with the world imaginatively, we enable others to see and understand these insights more clearly, making abstract concepts more tangible and accessible.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of creativity in education.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.
The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
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