Garry Kasparov Quotes

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

You must remember how to dream what you already know.

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

All that you can imagine you already know.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel

In what we really understand, we reason but little.