
Trialogue #24: The Heavens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqvY7CGaHw Esalen, California (1992)
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Context: The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
Trialogue #24: The Heavens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqvY7CGaHw Esalen, California (1992)
“It is imagination that loses battles.”
Source: St. Petersburg Dialogues (1821), "Seventh Dialogue," p. 221
“The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.”
“It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”
Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye
“In life we never lose friends. We only learn what are the real we have.”
Original: (it) Nella vita non perdiamo mai amici. Apprendiamo solo quali sono i veri che abbiamo.
Source: prevale.net
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
Amicitia quae desinere potest vera numquam fuit.
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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Context: A hero can capture the secret imagination of a people, and so be good for the vitality of his nation; a hero embodies the fantasy and so allows each private mind the liberty to consider its fantasy and find a way to grow. Each mind can become more conscious of its desire and waste less strength in hiding from itself.