#imagination

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

_Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations_

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. – Ursula K. Le Guin...

Imagination whispered untruths that only experience could shatter. — Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of ...

It’s the central error of the literary imagination to suppose that others are like us and must feel as we do. Fortunately

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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

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The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of

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Imagination in any form destroys truth.

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When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of

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Kids use their imaginations for play, most adults use it for worry.

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Our imagination flies - we are its shadow on the earth.

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Philosophy becomes poetry and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

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Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and

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People today have so little imagination that they cannot conceive of any choice but the choice between capitalism and

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Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

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What never was seen or heard of, may yet be conceived; nor is any thing beyond the power of thought, except what implies

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Irony is the clear consciousness of eternal agility, of an infinitely teeming chaos.

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The imagination is man’s faculty for perceiving divinity.

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