The error this fool is making is to think that condemning the MISUSE of a faculty is condemning the faculty.

Reason can be misused, as it is in sophistry. Imagination can be misused, as it is when fantasy becomes a substitute for reality.
Even Verne — who is wrong to say that anything that can be imagined can be done — subordinates imagination to “what can be done,” or reality.
Verne is obviously wrong: we can *imagine* all sorts of things we cannot do, e.g. squaring the circle in Euclidean geometry, building a perpetual motion machine, implementing a happy, non-tyrannical Communism, and so on.
Knowledge of what you cannot do is much more important that fantasizing about things that are not and cannot ever become real.

Stories, works of the imagination, are beneficial only to the extend that they reflect reality, even in fantastic guises.
The OP reflects the very problem. Someone could assert the principle “anything that can be imagined can be done” only if he is ignorantly living in an imaginary world and denying reality.
“Anything that can be imagined can be done” would be a very important thing, if it were true. Since it is false, it isn’t an important saying.

Imagining it to be true doesn’t make it true.

And that was, of course, my point.

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