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“The mark of an educated person was a rational mind…To believe in prophecy or the intervention of the divine was no more than sloppy thinking. - Apollodorus”

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Book:Hand of Isis

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“Look around you: I mean it. Pause, for a moment. Just look around this room that we're in. I'm going to point out something so obvious that it tends to be forgotten. It's this: that everything you can see, including the walls, was, at some point, imagined. Someone decided it might be easier to sit on a chair than on the ground and imagined the chair. Someone had to imagine a way that I could talk to you in London right now without us all getting rained on. This room and the things in it, and all the other things in this building, in this city, exist because, over and over and over, people imagined things. They daydreamed, they pondered, they made things that didn't quite work, they described things that didn't yet exist to people who laughed at them. And then, in time, they succeeded.”

Imagination

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Ho talmente riempito la mia riserva di giorni e maschere che adesso posso e devo passare gli anni a pescare, a tirar su mostri dagli occhi di perla, coriacei, squamosi e con barbe marine, sommersi da lungo tempo nel mar dei Sargassi della mia immaginazione.”

Writing Imagination Loneliness Depression

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“…we have futures. That means we can make things true…”

Truth Hope Imagination Possibility Future

Book:The Sea, The Sea

Source: The Sea, The Sea

“It’s all about the imagination. It is so much more influential than knowledge. Don’t lose creativity in the pursuit of logic.”

Imagination

Book:It Has Magic

Source: It Has Magic

“All books are good,' he said... 'They weren't bad books,' Phin countered patiently. 'They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.' I nodded. I couldn't fault his logic.”

Philosophy Literature Fiction Books Thriller

Book:The Family Upstairs

Source: The Family Upstairs

“Oh, sweet Fancy! Let her loose; Everything is spoilt by use (...) Let the winged Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home”

Imagination Fancy

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“My dear boy, there's your big mistake. This has nothing to do with will-power; that's a crazy, useless word, anyway; you lack judgement--the judgement to decide at once when you know your imagination will play you false, given half a chance.”

Imagination Judgement Will Power

Book:This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“With wealth, you can travel the world. With imagination, you can travel through stars...”

Imagination Travel

Author:Danilo Vukovljak

“As I walk upstairs, I am not conscious of the skills required to lift my left leg, then my right, and my left again, until I reach the top. I simply know that I will get there. I have already imagined it.”

Imagination

Author:Diamond Mike Watson

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