“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”
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“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
“Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.”
“A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.”
“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.”
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”
“Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.”
“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.”
“My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”
“However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.”
“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”
“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.”
“The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.”
“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
“The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”
“The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.”
“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”