“…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination” Imagination Book:The History of Mr. Polly Source: The History of Mr. Polly
“Now what sort of books will he need? There is his imagination to be fed. That, after all, is the crown of every education. The crown - as sound habits of mind and conduct are the throne. No imagination at all is brutality; a base imagination is lust and cowardice; but a noble imagination is God walking the earth again.” ImaginationEducationBooks Book:The Food of the Gods Source: The Food of the Gods
“But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to cooperate and understand. I have taught the imagination, first and most; I have made knowledge, knowledge of what man is and what man's world is and what man may be, which is the adventure of mankind, the substance of all my teaching.” GodImaginationEducationKnowledge Book:The Undying Fire Source: The Undying Fire
“He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed in, his fellow-passengers, the sailors, the wide sea, were all part of a filmy phantasmagoria that hung, scarcely veiling it, between him and a horrible real world. Then the Porroh man, thrusting his diabolical face through that curtain, was the one real and undeniable thing. At that he would get up and touch things, taste something, gnaw something, burn his hand with a match, or run a needle into himself. ("Pollock And The Porrah Man")” ImaginationSuperstitionFolk MagicWitch Doctor Book:Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Source: Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural