Imagination Quotes - Page 52

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however, the sensitive, intuitive mind turns to speculation, the result is Imagination. Fantasy may be visionary, but it is cold and logical. Imagination is sensuous and instinctive. Both have form, but the form of Fantasy is analogous to Exposition, that of Imagination to Narrative.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Art is the sex of the imagination.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared.

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.

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love.

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.