Watered Down Illusion

Camouflage: Wise guise. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

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

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

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

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

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

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

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

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

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

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

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

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

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

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

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky