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Image of John Ralston Saul
As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.
- John Ralston Saul
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Image of Alan Moore
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
- Alan Moore
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Image of Blaise Pascal
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
- Blaise Pascal
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Image of Alister E. McGrath
Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
- Alister E. McGrath
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Image of Thomas Merton
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Muriel Rukeyser
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.
- Muriel Rukeyser
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Image of Susan Sontag
Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Keanu Reeves
I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.
- Keanu Reeves
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Image of Rebecca West
[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.
- Rebecca West
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Image of Terry Pratchett
Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Wallace Stevens
Imagination is the will of things. . . .
- Wallace Stevens
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Image of Isaac Watts
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
- Isaac Watts
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Image of Rebecca Solnit
It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we do under neoliberalism. It feels that if neoliberalism is first about privatizing desire and imagination before the economy, then we're in this process of publicizing it again.
- Rebecca Solnit
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Image of Ezra Pound
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
- Ezra Pound
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Image of Robert Charles Wilson
The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.
- Robert Charles Wilson
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Image of Mark Twain
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Juliette Binoche
I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination.
- Juliette Binoche
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Image of Andre Breton
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
- Andre Breton
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Image of Simone de Beauvoir
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Image of John Steinbeck
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
- John Steinbeck
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Image of Marianne Moore
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
- Marianne Moore
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Image of Helen Mirren
I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end.
- Helen Mirren
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Image of Marcel Proust
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.
- Marcel Proust
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Image of Marilyn Monroe
I have too much imagination to be a housewife
- Marilyn Monroe
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Image of Ralph Marston
Imagine the possibilities!
- Ralph Marston
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Richard Steele
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
- Richard Steele
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Image of Noel Fielding
When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.
- Noel Fielding
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Image of J. K. Rowling
Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of George Santayana
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.
- George Santayana
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Image of Thomas Merton
The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Gloria Steinem
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
- Gloria Steinem
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Image of Anais Nin
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
- Anais Nin
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Image of Bertrand Russell
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Adrienne Rich
If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
- Adrienne Rich
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Marianne Moore
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.
- Marianne Moore
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Image of Pascal Mercier
What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?
- Pascal Mercier
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Image of Simone Weil
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
- Simone Weil
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Image of Ray Bradbury
Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
- Ray Bradbury
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of Thomas Nagel
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
- Thomas Nagel
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Image of John Ruskin
In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.
- John Ruskin
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Image of William Butler Yeats
rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
- William Butler Yeats
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Image of William Shenstone
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.
- William Shenstone
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Image of J. K. Rowling
Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Anais Nin
You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
- Anais Nin
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