Imaginal Love Quotes

“The literal is always abstract ‒ because reality is so much more than we can ever know or experience or imagine.”
― Tom Cheetham, Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman

“Perhaps we can think of fundamentalism as a stifling, an asphyxiation, and constipation of the soul.”
― Tom Cheetham, Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman

“Corbin was a Platonist, and his theory of knowledge is “illuminationist.” All knowledge comes from above by means of a vision of, or union with the archetypes, the Platonic Forms. The “giver of Forms” is the Angel.”
― Tom Cheetham, Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman