imagination

Reality has become much scarier than any, even tasteless, imagination. And it should be shown that way. The human soul is measured to its full extent, and such that the world did not even suspect. Books and films about our truth, about our people must crackle with horror, suffering, anger and the unheard-of power of the human spirit.

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

“Imagine how much stuff you’d have to make up if you were forced to talk 24/7—remember this when watching financial news on TV.”

— Morgan Housel

If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Christian relaxes in the temperate use of all the gifts of Providence. Imagination, and taste, and genius, and the beauties of creation, and the works of art, lie open to him.

—William Wilberforce

All you need to do is abandon established customs & superstitions & look at the position of every person who lives under a government, whether it be a despotic or the most democratic, & you’ll be horrified at the degree of slavery in which people live while imagining they’re free

—Leo Tolstoy

If there’s life after death then it’s something we can’t imagine.

—Leo Tolstoy

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

—George Orwell

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

—George Orwell

“When the heart is fully influenced by God’s Spirit, then the will and the intellect, the memory and the imagination, and everything else which makes up the inward man, comes under cheerful allegiance to the King of kings.”

Charles Spurgeon

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

—Isaac Newton

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

—Henry David Thoreau

You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

—Nikolai Gogol

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

—Oscar Wilde

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality

—Seneca

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

—Mark Twain

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

—Julius Caesar

Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

—Carl Jung

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything you can imagine is real.

—Pablo Picasso

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

—Seneca

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

—Henry David Thoreau

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

—Plato

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

—Isaac Newton

Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

—Plato

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

—Immanuel Kant

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.

—Immanuel Kant

Imagination means nothing without doing.

—Charlie Chaplin