Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Contradiction (1947), p. 240
“The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.”
Book Three, Chapter XI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
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“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
Source: Business Systems Planning and Business Information Control Study: A comparison, 1982, p. 34
“So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.”
Remarks after insulting King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and having his microphone cut (30 March 2009), quoted in The Scotsman (31 March 2009) " Gaddafi walks out of summit after attack on Saudi king http://news.scotsman.com/world/Gaddafi-walks-out-of-summit.5123610.jp" by Salah Nasrawi
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)