"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.“


-Carl Jung

posted in imagination


All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."

-Carl Jung

workView Quote
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

-Carl Jung

truthView Quote
"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."

-Carl Jung

truthView Quote
"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth."

-Carl Jung

truthView Quote
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

-Carl Jung

teacherView Quote
"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."

-Carl Jung

scienceView Quote

More Quotes About imagination

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."

-Terry Wogan

imaginationView Quote
"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."

-Irving Howe

imaginationView Quote
"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."

-Laurette Taylor

imaginationView Quote
"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."

-Theodore Gericault

imaginationView Quote
"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."

-Lionel Stander

imaginationView Quote
"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"

-Francis Cabot Lowell

imaginationView Quote