![]() Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon You are my center when I spin away. - Radiohead Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant 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 There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst 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 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 Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman 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 Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. - Andrew Delbanco Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato see also Illusion Section |
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