Streetwise: Karl Barth on the imagination
'Imagination, too, belongs no less legitimately to the human possibility of knowing. A man without an imagination is more of an invalid that one who lacks a leg.'
-Karl Barth, CD III/1, 91
-Karl Barth, CD III/1, 91
Labels: Barth, imagination, quotation, Streetwise
posted by Jason at 9:56 AM
2 Comments:
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks for this, Jason, it's a keeper (though of course, it's impossible utterly to lack an imagination, as it isnot impossible to manage without legs).
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