Reflection

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

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

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

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

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

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

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

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

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. - Vauvenargues

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

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

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

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

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer

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

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect). - Mark Twain

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not professional anymore. - Jeff Foxworthy

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

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

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

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

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

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

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

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