Karen Armstrong Quote

Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.


Chapter 7, God of the Mystics - A History of God (1993)


Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is...

Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is...

Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is...

Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is...