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.
“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.”
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