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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Imagination

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Reason focuses on understanding and acknowledging the distinct qualities that set things apart from one another. Imagination, on the other hand, finds and emphasizes the common features that connect different things together.

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