Martha C. Nussbaum Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Eye, Exercise, Views

  Martha C. Nussbaum (2010). “From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law”, p.16, Oxford University Press

• Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Imagination, Leader, Humanity

  Source: www.neh.gov

• I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: www.neh.gov

• I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members of the whole world of human beings, we also needed to connect our imaginations to a smaller unit. The smaller unit was something we knew we could live or die for, as Cicero died for the Roman republic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Ideas, Imagination, Fans

  Source: www.neh.gov

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