Immanuel Kant Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  'Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics' (1785, translation by T. K. Abbott) sect. 2

• The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Play, Imagination

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Kant's Critiques”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

• But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Divorce, Garden

  "Critique of Judgment".

• Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Powerful, Creating

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Kant's Critiques”, p.685, Simon and Schuster

• Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Imagination, Perception, Ingredients

  "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (A 120), (1781; 1787).

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