Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 42 “Only one who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. ” ― Miguel de Unamuno   Triggered by the misattribution of a variant of the quote to M.C. Escher : “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. ”

Quote of the Week 41 “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ” ―  Albert Einstein   Triggered by the citation in  A Brain for Innovation: The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking (English Edition) by  Jung, Min W. (2023).   Related : “ Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ― Albert Einstein  

Quote of the Week 40 “Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses. ” ― Thomas Aquinas  ( Peripatetic Axiom ) Latin: “Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu. ” Often attributed to John Locke . Lockean Axiom :  “There is no idea in the mind that cannot be traced back to some particular experience. ” Further refined by Leibniz : “Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.” ―  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

Quote of the Week 26 “ You can imagine the opposite.” ―  Maurizio Nannucci Triggered by a visit to Lenbachhaus in Munich. Related : Quote of the Week 20 “Everything you can imagine is real.” ―  Pablo Picasso Other themes  of neon texts created by Nannucci : “ All art has been contemporary.” “ Light and beauty are two unquestionable facts.” “ Listen to your eyes.” “ The missing poem ist the poem.” “ Events take time events take space. ” “ In regard to simplicity nothing is defined .” “ Some words different thoughts. ” “I mages are the origin of language .”

Quote of the Week 20 “ Everything you can imagine is real. ” ―  Pablo Picasso Obviously generated by AI