“He had an imagination so excitable that it flirted with the edges of fantasy, which is also something we can try to preserve in ourselves and indulge in our children.”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci
“She'd never been thanked, let alone HUGGED, after telling a lie. But maybe she hadn't lied at all. Maybe it wasn't lying as much as it was applying some imagination. Looking at something from a different angle. That wasn't such a bad thing.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.”
Source: A Sense of Wonder: On Reading and Writing Books for Children
“Imagination, therefore, is nothing but decaying sense...”
“Surreal reality. Real surreality.
Imagination Opium. Reality Morphium.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“This story has never happened but it is real.
Once upon a time, in a surreal paradigm.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bond up with this subjective way of judging men, not as members of a community, but as aesthetically delightful objects of contemplation. Tigers are more beautiful than sheep, but we prefer them behind bars. The typical romantic removes the bars and enjoys the magnificent leaps with which the tiger annihilates the sheep. He exhorts men to imagine themselves tigers, and when he succeeds the results are not wholly pleasant.”
Source: A History of Western Philosophy
“The world is filled with people who have too much imagination solely because the people around them have too little.”
Source: Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
“Join them in their world when they're little so you'll be welcome in their world when they get big.”
“Livet är vad vi gör om det till att vara.”
Source: Handling the Undead