Quotes on Imagination

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

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.

The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.