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Full Idea
The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.
Gist of Idea
The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye
Source
Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1797)
Book Ref
Joubert,Joseph: 'Notebooks', ed/tr. Auster,Paul [nyrb 2005], p.30
A Reaction
As a fan of the imagination, I love this one. I suspect that imagination, which was marginalised by Descartes, is actually the single most important aspect of thought (in slugs as well as humans). Abstraction requires imagination.