“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.” Carlyle
“They only are wise who know that they know nothing.” Carlyle
Imagination is a paltry thing indeed,
If it appears when understanding ends.
But who can tell what dreams comprise?
Great fiction and great truth arise
Together, often, you will find.
Yet he is only wise who comprehends
He knows no thing at all and can’t succeed
In much, if aught. And yet what then?
Can he not dream and conjure from his mind
Such fantasies as comfort honest men,
Who knowing they know naught are therefore wise?
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