T Quotes
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“The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”
“The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.”
Source: Towards the immaterial
“The imagination is the voyage of our thoughts in the endless ocean of the mind that searches for the splendid beaches of happiness.”
“The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.”
“The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.”
Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo
“The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.”
Source: The Law of Success
“The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.”
“The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.”
Source: How We Decide
“The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.”
“The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.”
“The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.”
Source: John Keats: Hyperion (Unabridged): An Epic Poem from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, best known for his Odes, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Indolence, Ode to Psyche, Ode to Fanny, Lamia and more
“The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.”
Source: The Art of Scientific Investigation
“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“The imagination never dies.”
Source: Poets of America
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.”
“the imagination of a child is the most precious gift we can share”
Source: Bugglepuffs And The Magic Key
“The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.”
Source: Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848
“The imagination of creative thought can be a crazy place,this giving reason to write it down to try and make sense of it all.”
“The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without controul, into the most distant parts of space and time, in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.”
Source: David Hume : An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
“The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The Imagination of the Mind is the Treasury that although liable to theft, never ceases to grow.”
“The imagination or mental creation of God is our reality. It's the same difference between living in Heaven and living on Earth.”
“The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.”
“The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice suffices to cool off the imagination. This whimsical part of the mind is so unbridled as to be uncontrollable. Its greatest triumphs, its most eminent delights consist in smashing all the restraints that oppose it. Imagination is the enemy of all norms, the idolater of all disorder and of all that bears the color of crime.”
Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir
“The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.”
“The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.”
“The imagination uses nonsense to connect the impossible to the possible.”
“The imagination wants to construct the new worlds, no? Creativity is a solution. If I ask you, "What is your goal in life? How many years do you have to live before to die? How many years do you have? And what you will do with these years you have?" You have pressure there. "How you will realize a good life? How? Tell me!" Then, you start to open your mind.”
“The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.”
Source: Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
“The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.”
“The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.”
Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius
“The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.”
Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner
“The imaginations of our nation's entrepreneurs, coupled with the constant discoveries of our scientists, can lead us to this future. But our twentieth-century policies, regulations, and market approaches cannot solve our twenty-first-century challenges. We are also hindered by our big, bureaucratic government and special interests that protect the past at the expense of progress. We must urgently rethink these failing systems and outdated regulations if we are to clear the way for a revolution in health science and technology.
President Trump and congressional Republicans, therefore, must think much bigger and broader than changes in insurance financing to enact real reform that will save lives and save money. Instead, their number one priority should be to replace our current health bureaucracy with a flatter, more transparent, and more accountable health system that embraces innovation.”
Source: Understanding Trump
“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization”
Source: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ – Complete Collection: 16 Novels in One Premium Edition (Fantasy Classics Series): The most Beloved Children’s Books about the Adventures in the Magical Land of Oz
“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.”
“The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.”
Source: Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography
“The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?”
Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.”
“The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.”
Source: How to Read the Air
“The imagined needs of refugees have almost universally been reduced to two basics - food and shelter - and it has become assumed that the most viable way to provide such rights is through camps.”
Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
“The imagined suppression of uncertainty is nothing more than a mirage… The future is unknown, and we all constantly make assumptions. But to rely on assumptions as if they were certainty is irresponsible.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.”
“The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.”
Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
“The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.”
“The imbalance of power in the employee-employer relationship puts the onus on leaders to address fairness at work”
Source: Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction