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“...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.”

Book:Transformation of Man

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“We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense. We aren't equipped for the possibility that they might be worse. But I guess that would be asking too much. It must be an evolutionary stopgap - if we were all so specifically, vividly aware of what might go horribly wrong, we would none of us have children at all.”

Children Imagination Parenting Natalism

Book:A Little Life

Source: A Little Life

“In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled garden of our imagination, no stalking horses can perturb the rainbow in our mind or fade out its bright colors reflecting in the blue sky of our memory. ("Alpha and Omega")”

Love Mind Imagination Garden Memory Rainbow Colors Blue Sky Bright Reflect Alpha And Omega In The Beginning The Word Fade Out Perturb Stalking Horses Sun Dappled

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Tuesday, November 17th. 1896 ... I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.”

Imagination Childhood Nostalgia Fairies

Book:The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897

Source: The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897

“If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. ("Into a new life")”

World Life Imagination Power Expectations Manage Dots Script Withering Connect Rewrite Creaking At The Seams

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“As we walk through life, fleeting emotional episodes may keep on twinkling, curl up in the hive of our recollection and enrich our imagination. In the same vein, esthetic allurement and poetic gracefulness may possess us, besiege our mind, light up our thinking and shape our future. ( Über alle Gipfeln ist Ruh”)”

Mind Imagination Emotional Poetic Fleeting Recollection Twinkling Gracefulness Hive Esthetic

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.”

Imagination Humour

Author:Horace Walpole

“A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.”

Inspirational Philosophy

Book:The Great Ship of Knowledge, Vol. 1: Learning Earth's Deathly History

Source: The Great Ship of Knowledge, Vol. 1: Learning Earth's Deathly History

“Life can be a wonderful ballet, letting us express all the values we are living for if the sky of our imagination remains open to passion. ("A glimpse of the future")”

Values Passion Imagination Wonderful Future Ballet Glimpse Express

Author:Erik Pevernagie

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