The Imaginary Quotes

“For a consciousness to be capable of imagining…it needs to be free.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Imaginary

“From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and which means the negation of the world in its essential structure.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Psychology of Imagination

“There is a kind of overflowing in the world of 'things': there is, at every moment, always infinitely more than we can see; to exhaust the richness of my current perception would take an infinite time.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Imaginary

“Conventions need have no rationale apart from the rationale of having a convention.”
― Jonathan Webber, The Imaginary