Mountain Illusion

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. - John Wanamaker

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. - Dag Hammarskjold

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. - Arlene Blum

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung