Wendell Berry Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

  Wendell Berry

  Imagination, Needs, Novel

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.10, Counterpoint Press

• Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Mean, Compassion

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.168, Counterpoint Press

• In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Egalitarianism, Differences

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.181, Counterpoint

• Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.

  Wendell Berry

  Imagination, Causes, Action

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words: Essays”, p.88, Counterpoint Press

• The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be mitigated by mercy. And you don't get to mercy by a legal principle. You get to mercy by way of imagination, sympathy, tenderness of heart - which are not weaknesses.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Law, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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