Joseph Joubert Quote

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.


Pensées of Joubert (ed. 1896)


Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative....

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative....

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative....

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative....