To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Most idealistic people are skint.
I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.