Imagination Quotes - Page 34

You are the imagination of yourself.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.

Imagination grows by exercise.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

The meaning of spirituality is to be healthy and happy; to be physically, emotionally and mentally strong. We can't find this with imagination. We must practice.

Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.

You imagination is more important than your knowledge.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.