“All that you can imagine you already know”
“If you can imagine a thing,then it has already existed,somewhere, somewhen, somehow.”
“Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?" ~pg 11”
“If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels; and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.”
“It is not that what you can imagine depends on what you know, but that what you know depends on what you can imagine. The history of science couldn't be clearer on this point, and, therefore, Dennett is a sophist.”
“What you can imagine depends on what you know.”