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“All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.”

“I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.”

Ifs Knows Might Courses Speak Nature Existence Hundred Silent Manifest Imaginary Ambiguity Perplexity God Nature

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.”

Land Imaginary Fantasia

Author:Noah Hathaway

“Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”

People Firsts Play Class Listening Balls Tennis Imaginary Dining First Class Britons Dining Out

Book:With Malice Toward Some

Source: With Malice Toward Some

“John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.”

Ifs Looks Building Rounds Edges Tennis Serving Imaginary

Author:Clive James

“All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.”

Want Real Actors Acting Psychology Taught Theory Circumstances Behavior Theatre Imaginary Just Do It Reacting Great Actors

Author:Mike Nichols

“There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things”

Real Light Pain Evil Views Depends Imaginary

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.”

Ifs World Firsts Whole Imaginary Vivid Utopian Facets Credible

Book:A Modern Utopia

Source: A Modern Utopia

“I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!”

Done Funny Actors Hell Dog Imaginary Contests Here I Am

Author:Matthew Lillard

“True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.”

Real Order Evil Causes Views Gratitude Judgment Connections Abstract Good And Evil Imaginary True Knowledge

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'”

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.”

Ifs Men Home Found Easier Comfortable Prison Instinct Possession Desert Imaginary Forged Pastures Greener Pascal Rigour

Book:The Songlines

Source: The Songlines

“Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.”

War Religious Killing Imaginary Simplest Killing Each Other Imaginary Friend Religious Wars

Author:Richard Jeni

“The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me.”

Giants Bottles Imaginary Whiskey

Author:Rocko

“I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.”

Thinking Understanding Views Talking Deeper Point Of View Imaginary Not Talking Wishful Thinking Craziness

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.”

Trying Kids Growing Up Growing Obsession Rejection Imaginary Imaginary Friend

Author:Beth Ditto

“It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.”

Trouble Bears Harder Imaginary

Author:Dorothy Dix

“Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.”

World Heart Said Book Real Able Universe Space This World Mom Quiet My Favorite My Mom Museums Imaginary Plunge Places To Go Real Ones Favorite Places Escapists Imaginary World Quiet Space

Book:Die for Me

Source: Die for Me

“I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.”

Used Imaginary Imaginary Friend

Author:Niall Horan

“We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.”

Believe Looks Two Hands Given Christ Sin Terrible Despair Regard Look Up Imaginary Insignificant Trifles Discarded Transgression Sins Not

Book:Commentary on Galatians

Source: Commentary on Galatians

“President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person . . . So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. It’s all the same.”

Persons Made Real Bigs President Deals Plans Week Economic Former Girlfriend President Obama Imaginary Autobiography Big Deal Real Person

Author:Jay Leno

“It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution”

Ifs Doe Would Be Together Pride Battle Ego Wave Endless Destroyed Frustration Resolution Repentance Imaginary Crash Towers Conquest Remorse

Book:Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973

Source: Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973

“Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience.”

People Should Important Play Purpose Three Realizing Audience Four Walking Program Concerts Performers Imaginary Memorizing Walking Out

Author:Leonard Rose

“Sometimes I`m stressed and I`m sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you`re taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different. But also the main characters are completely real and modern so you can relate to them.”

World Needs Different Real Sometimes Character Forget Taken Wonderful Modern Sick Relate Imaginary Harry Potter Potters Stressed Main Characters Imaginary World

Author:Evanna Lynch

“Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.”

People World Way Kind Real Done Might Order Fiction Science Fiction Experiments Real World Imaginary Visiting Imaginary World

Author:Brian Stableford

“My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one”

World Heart Said Real Mom My Mom Imaginary Real Ones Escapists Imaginary World

Book:Inside the World of Die for Me

Source: Inside the World of Die for Me

“Your pursuit of personal greatness challenges others to fear for their own causes, their own battles and pursuits. Your freedom is a reminder of their own imaginary restraints and limitations. Yet, for others, your confidence will be a beacon. People follow conviction, assertive advice and brave leaders, and there's nothing more powerful than a confident man or woman.”

People Men Causes Challenges Powerful Leader Advice Greatness Battle Brave Conviction Pursuit Limitation Imaginary Restraint Reminders Beacons Your Freedom Assertive

Author:James Victore

“I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.”

Stills Imaginary Imaginary Friend

Author:Lee Ryan

“I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been.”

Stuff Photography Connected Disappear Imaginary

Author:Tim Walker

“All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.”

Mind Imagination Acting Circumstances Imaginary Responding Conjuring

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.”

Firm Imaginary Stand Firm Imaginary Things

Book:The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir

Source: The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir

“In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist.”

People Thinking Heart Long Important Self Joy Loses Pieces Humility Shadow Trade Compare Imaginary Unreality

Author:Thomas Merton

“One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.”

Advantage Imaginary Introducing Can Not Stolen Disadvantages

Book:Chicken pox for the soul

Source: Chicken pox for the soul

“Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.”

Soul Facts Light Poverty Darkness Pride Riches Imaginary

Book:John Climacus (CWS)

Source: John Climacus (CWS)

“Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also how much fun it was — losing myself in these imaginary worlds.”

Thinking World Writing Made Said Hard Fun Reader Losing Moved Imaginary Emulation Imaginary World Losing Myself

Author:Stewart O'Nan

“The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.”

Imagination Results Stronger Imaginary

Book:The Three

Source: The Three

“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.”

Ifs Knows World Writing Asks Answers Company Goes On Creating Desert Ask Me Islands Imaginary Imaginary World

Author:William S. Burroughs

“What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.”

Humans Heart Imaginary

Author:Rumi

“I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.”

“Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"”

People Reason Evil Strong All Things Weak Prejudice Charity Imaginary Hearted Strong People Weak People Strangling

Author:John Ross Macduff

“She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Made Real Law Healing Forever Failing Journey Obstacles Made It Imaginary Life Journey Learning Experience Laws Of Life

Author:Cesar Millan

“Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.”

“The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.”

Men Flower Chains Imaginary Agnostic

Author:Karl Marx

“Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.”

World Art Two Real Soul Artist Art Is Fulfillment Imaginary Insatiable Two Worlds

Author:Edward J. Fraughton

“If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.”

“If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.”

Ifs Needs Mind I Can Use Dream Causes Imagination Comfort Ease Rely Celebration Imaginary My Imagination

Author:Billy Joel

“In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle discovered by J.J. Thomson in 1897. Dirac was puzzled by an unprecedented property of space-time, discovered by Lorentz in his studies of electromagnetic forces, whereby if space was real, time had to be imaginary, and vice versa. In other words, space and time had to be a ‘complex’ mixture of two quantities, one real and the other imaginary.”

“The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.”

Men Doe Reality Numbers Objects Function Defined Encounters Imaginary Richness Symbolic

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.”

Important Existence Materials Imaginary Distinguished

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.”

People Want Different Real Seems Eye Real Life Satisfied Imaginary Imaginary Life

Author:Blaise Pascal

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