The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

Borges has this wonderful phrase in a short story: "La falta de imaginación los movió a ser crueles" (the lack of imagination moved them to cruelty). Though cruelty with imagination can be the worst of all-just think of certain torturers in our respective countries. As a tool, imagination should only be used by writers, in their writing.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

Even the people were bred without imaginations. The imaginative ones were fixed—or gotten rid of. Too dangerous to have a thinker unless he thought the government’s way.

Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.