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Image of Byron Katie
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.
- Byron Katie
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Image of David Hume
Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.
- David Hume
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Image of Aldous Huxley
It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
- Aldous Huxley
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Image of James Joyce
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
- James Joyce
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Image of Meher Baba
Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
- Meher Baba
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Image of Gaston Bachelard
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
- Gaston Bachelard
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Image of Christopher Isherwood
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.
- Christopher Isherwood
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Image of Diana Wynne Jones
All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
- Diana Wynne Jones
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Image of Robert Hughes
Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.
- Robert Hughes
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Image of William James
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
- William James
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Image of Immanuel Kant
Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
- Immanuel Kant
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Image of Samuel Johnson
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Gaston Bachelard
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
- Gaston Bachelard
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Image of Samuel Johnson
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Michio Kaku
In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.
- Michio Kaku
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Image of Samuel Johnson
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of John Banville
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
- John Banville
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Image of Stephen King
Small towns harbor small imaginations.
- Stephen King
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Image of C. S. Lewis
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Karl Kraus
Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
- Karl Kraus
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Image of Stephen King
This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.
- Stephen King
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Image of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Image of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Image of Heath Ledger
I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
- Heath Ledger
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Image of C. S. Lewis
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Walter Savage Landor
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
- Walter Savage Landor
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Image of Alphonse de Lamartine
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
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Image of James A. Baldwin
If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.
- James A. Baldwin
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Image of Steig Larsson
Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something wrong with her brain.
- Steig Larsson
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Image of Dean Koontz
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
- Dean Koontz
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Image of Madeleine L'Engle
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
- Madeleine L'Engle
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Image of James A. Baldwin
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
- James A. Baldwin
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Image of Stanley Kubrick
I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
- Stanley Kubrick
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Image of Stephen King
The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.
- Stephen King
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Image of Brennan Manning
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
- Brennan Manning
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Image of Terence McKenna
You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Yann Martel
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
- Yann Martel
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Image of Terence McKenna
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Nelson Mandela
Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
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Image of Ian Mcewan
I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.
- Ian Mcewan
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Image of Terence McKenna
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Hassan Blasim
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once again, are part of the context of life in the Arab world - anarchy, confusion, and corruption.
- Hassan Blasim
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Image of Terence McKenna
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Ian Mckellen
[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.
- Ian Mckellen
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Image of Colleen McCullough
In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
- Colleen McCullough
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Image of Terence McKenna
Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Rob Lowe
As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.
- Rob Lowe
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Image of Steve Martin
I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.
- Steve Martin
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