quotations about imagination
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
"Notebook C", Aphorisms
The imagination is wonderfully liberated to mix and match, rearrange shapes, and explore the mind's ability to be one with all things.
ROBERT COLACURCIO
Spirituality in Disguise: The Imagination as Bartender
The imagination prevents us from being complacent and satisfied with present conditions, circumstances and environment. It spurs us on to greater endeavor and achievement.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Imagination", Human Life from Many Angles
Imagination flourishes just beyond the real, the known, the concrete.
ROBERT A. KOWAL
"Weird Cinema: Through the Lens Darkly," Weird Tales, Summer 2011
A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Your imagination is the coat of many colors; it can clothe and objectify any idea or desire.
JOSEPH MURPHY
Re-Design Your Future
A pure imagination is a rich, invaluable boon; its pleasures are boundless; it exceeds the power of the magician; it can give to every blade of grass, to every leaf, and to every flower, an intelligible voice, that shall speak to me of great and profitable truths; under its magic wand the inanimate lives, space is peopled with beauteous scenes, the solitudes become vocal, the wilderness smiles, all nature becomes eloquent with truth, and all the sounds of nature, above and around us, become sweeter than an Aeolian harp.
RICHARD ROBERTS
"Self-Conquest", Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association
Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.
L. RON HUBBARD
Self Analysis
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
TOM STOPPARD
"Artist Descending a Staircase"
What is thinkable is also possible.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
KARL MARX
Capital
It is clear that however different from the real one an imagined world may be, it must have something -- a form -- in common with the real world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus
Imagination is not an intangible nebula of dreams, fancies, hallucinations, fantasms, illusions, empty nothings. Imagination does things. Things are done in imagination. What is done in imagination is as real to the one who does it as are the products of imagination when harnessed to physical uses.
H. W. PERCIVAL
"Imagination", The Word
Imagination is the air of mind.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The unimaginative man lives by rule according to habit, in set forms and grooves, and based on experience. He does not wish to change them, but wants to continue these. Perhaps he thinks they should be improved, but any improvement should be along the lines of what has been. He dreads the unknown. The unknown has no attraction for him. The imaginator lives by change, according to impressions, in moods and emotions, based on his hopes and ideals. He does not dread the unknown; or, if he does, it has for him the attraction of adventure.
H. W. PERCIVAL
"Imagination", The Word
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Imagination is life itself, fully creating reality through an interpretive perception of it.
RONALD SCHENK
The Soul of Beauty: A Psychological Investigation of Appearance
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
Your imagination is irrepressible. You will always imagine something. The question is: Will you imagine something that empowers you to accomplish your dreams and goals, or will you use your imagination to bring the thing you fear into existence?
LANCE MORTON
Mentally Create Your Ideal Weight