When we build castles in the air our imagination works at white heat. Imagination is purer form of men activity. It needs detachment from personal emotions an personal
prejudices. Imagination widens outlook and endows us with the faculty to judge correctly. Intuition is perhaps the purest form of imagination that is spiritual imagination. We can include even prophecy and spiritual enlightenment within its fold. They colour the feelings, which serve as the driving force in life.
Visions, when they get relevance in the context of life, become thoughts and thoughts and feelings cannot recognise a common frontier - as one discovers no common frontier between an ugly, fashionable woman and the scent that she has used. These 'castles' help us in balancing intuition and reason into a technique by which we can evaluate the world of facts.
A purely idea a militant philosophy and Muslin religious feelings, produced and Aquinas
who could combine the claims of reason and intuition. Modern man is tense, uncertain, adrift and needs the help of these 'castles' to reconcile with the innate desire to live.
Utilitarianism has brought depravity in Man's nature; to use evil is nothing worse than simple bad cold, to use cruelty is nothing more than a cat's play with a rat. Our thinking will have to rise above the earthly level-imagination can help us.
Science is supposed to be at war with our dreams. It discounts the importance of imagination as it cannot be measured, it cannot be seen or grasped Can we say the science does not build castles in the air?. The very act of conceiving and idea is building castles. Coleridge's Kubla khan conceived of "sunny domes" with 'caves of ice'; Organic Chenistry his Theory of Relativity used to dream of harmony discoverable in the movements of the planets.
We come to reality only through our dreams. No activity of human though can be complete without the touch of imagination. Political theories, economic laws are based upon assumptions which make them nothing but castles. Ideals and ideologies are the synthetic fold of spirit. Though science is analytical, objective and exploratory yet without having some vague notions, science can neither be analytical nor exploratory.
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prejudices. Imagination widens outlook and endows us with the faculty to judge correctly. Intuition is perhaps the purest form of imagination that is spiritual imagination. We can include even prophecy and spiritual enlightenment within its fold. They colour the feelings, which serve as the driving force in life.
Visions, when they get relevance in the context of life, become thoughts and thoughts and feelings cannot recognise a common frontier - as one discovers no common frontier between an ugly, fashionable woman and the scent that she has used. These 'castles' help us in balancing intuition and reason into a technique by which we can evaluate the world of facts.
A purely idea a militant philosophy and Muslin religious feelings, produced and Aquinas
who could combine the claims of reason and intuition. Modern man is tense, uncertain, adrift and needs the help of these 'castles' to reconcile with the innate desire to live.
Utilitarianism has brought depravity in Man's nature; to use evil is nothing worse than simple bad cold, to use cruelty is nothing more than a cat's play with a rat. Our thinking will have to rise above the earthly level-imagination can help us.
Science is supposed to be at war with our dreams. It discounts the importance of imagination as it cannot be measured, it cannot be seen or grasped Can we say the science does not build castles in the air?. The very act of conceiving and idea is building castles. Coleridge's Kubla khan conceived of "sunny domes" with 'caves of ice'; Organic Chenistry his Theory of Relativity used to dream of harmony discoverable in the movements of the planets.
We come to reality only through our dreams. No activity of human though can be complete without the touch of imagination. Political theories, economic laws are based upon assumptions which make them nothing but castles. Ideals and ideologies are the synthetic fold of spirit. Though science is analytical, objective and exploratory yet without having some vague notions, science can neither be analytical nor exploratory.
[ Part 1 ] [ Part 3]
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