/Xianbei
dynasty Northern Zhou
. Her husband was Emperor Jing
, the final emperor of the dynasty.
Sima Lingji was the daughter of the Northern Zhou general Sima Xiaonan (司馬消難) the Duke of Yingyang and Lady Yuchi, daughter of Yuchi Jiong
. In 579, Emperor Jing's father, the retired emperor Emperor Xuan
, took Sima Lingji to be his son Emperor Jing's wife. Sima Lingji's age at that time was not recorded in history, but Emperor Jing was six-years-old at the time.
Emperor Xuan died in summer 580, and the official Yang Jian
, the father of Emperor Xuan's wife Empress Yang Lihua
, seized power as regent
.
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. Men of bright fancies may in this respect be compared to those angels whom the scripture represents as covering their eyes with their wings.
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
The true function of logic,... as applied to matters of experience,... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
There is no life I knowthat compares to pure imaginationLiving there you'll be freeif you truly wish to be
Impossibility is only the figment of an insufficient imagination.