To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are […]
Imagine - Imagination Quotes
I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky – fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind’s will.
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
