“who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined? who among us can speak with so fragile tongue and remain proud?”

“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”

“The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages" Pt.1, 41”

“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”

“We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.”

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”