Imagined

Famous quotes containing the word imagined:

    Our argument ... will result, not upon logic by itself—though without logic we should never have got to this point—but upon the fortunate contingent fact that people who would take this logically possible view, after they had really imagined themselves in the other man’s position, are extremely rare.
    Richard M. Hare (b. 1919)

    She shut her eyes
    and imagined her lover on the bed,
    hugged herself tight
    with her own loose-bangled arms.
    Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our poverty is as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.
    Robert Neelly Bellah (20th century)