Best imagination & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.”

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.”

Ideas Self Imagination Memories Ignorance Accounts Attraction Dependent Aversion Serials

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.”

World Doe Self Dream Imagination Conscious Manipulation Self Conscious True Freedom Dream World

Author:Wendy Beckett

“I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.”

People Self Used Imagination Used To Be Tempted Subjective My Imagination Inner Self Exterior

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.”

Giving Self Reason Energy Imagination Birth Senses Symbols Harmonious Permanence Conductor Flux Incorporating

Book:Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Source: Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.”

Source: Pornography: men possessing women

“By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.”

World Self Imagination Identity Citizens Prejudice Locals Division Invited Frontiers Horseback

Author:Alain de Botton

“Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.”

Men Children Self Running Joy Parent Imagination Fantasy Environment Modern Conditions Fine Seeking Self Respect Modern Man

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire.”

Ifs Humans Doe Self Asks Speak Imagination Fire Tongue Glorious Sunset Deprived Transcendence Mundane Intercourse Auras

Book:In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.”

“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.”

“It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.”

Self Helping Reality Seems Lasts Sound Imagination Doubt Our Lives Expression Pressure Analysis No Doubt Preservation Self Preservation

Book:The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

“How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.”

May Self Imagination Mad Defense Leisure Obliged Riot Self Defense Delicacy Vulgarity Luxurious

Book:Selected Letters of John Keats

Source: Selected Letters of John Keats

“Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.”

Men Heart Self Hands Nations Imagination Sacrifice Spring Miracle Instruments Enthusiasm Heroic Heroism Self Sacrifice Hands Of God

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.”

Thinking Knows Wells Children Book Self Literature Imagination Train Warm Faculty Portions Old Friends Children's Literature

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

“There is a way to again be in real time with the universe, but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation. It is by finding your true Self. When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.”

Way Life Needs Real Self Time Universe Force Imagination Findings Flow Manipulation True Self Manipulate

Book:White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

Source: White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

“Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.”

May Self Together Imagination Ability Pleasure Grief Seeing Equal Fortune Ill Envy Exceed Emulation

Book:The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

Source: The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”

“Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.”

People World Wells Self Reality Imagination Awareness Bridges Provincialism

Author:Paula Fox

“It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.”

Way Self Reading Imagination Conscious Drinking Alcohol Ritual Crucial Self Conscious Ingenious

Author:Daphne Merkin

“I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.”

World Self Political Imagination Saws Growing Military Information Amount Economics Complexes Rate Censorship Publishing Collecting Military Industrial Complex Self Censorship

Author:Julian Assange

“Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all. But we live in a universe of Brahman, of Absolute Reality, self -contained Consciousness, where there's perfection, perfect life, perfect bliss, perfect being. That perfection knows nothing about wrong and right, good and bad, happy and sad. It knows only itself as Perfection. And you are That.”

Knows Should Wells Heart Self Reality Remember Universe Imagination Perfect Mistake Consciousness Perfection Absolutes Bliss Good And Bad Unfolding Brahman Perfect Life Self Contained

Author:Robert Adams

“We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.”

Self Might Belief Imagination Neglect Our Future Future Self

Author:Derek Parfit

“By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.”

Self Dream Might Values Passion Imagination Youth Glory Ideals Perfection Pursuit Urges Adolescence Boundless Absorption Self Absorption Personalized Self Perfection

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”

Men Giving Self Seems Suffering Imagination Greater Dangerous Comfort Giving Up Female Charity Cop Hierarchy Looking Down Perpetuating

Book:A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

“A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.”

Self Facts Imagination Perfect Powerful Materials Profound Command Narrative Sufficient Historian Hypothesis Casting Refrain Deficiency Ingenious Mould Picturesque

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.”

“Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.”

Littles Self Spiritual Imagination Conscience Ideology Dozen Justification Corpses Lambs Spiritual Strength Self Justification

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.”

World Humans Kind Self Whole Seems Might Spirit Humanity Peace Imagination Salvation Affection Deeper Worthy Abstraction Human Imagination

Book:The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

“In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking? By using constructive imagination - the eye of faith - we can change our self image.”

Thinking Self Eye Moving Order Peace Imagination Talking Higher Performances Spectrum Constructive

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.”

Source: Readings in St. John's Gospel ...

“The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Self Facts Together Imagination Dark Emotion Accounts Regard Conclusion Designer Obscure Cement

Book:Works

Source: Works

“What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!”

Self Form Literature Imagination Concerned Dear Mistaken Anne Elliot Wild Imagination

Book:Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

“The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.”

Knows Mind Persons Self Body Individual Imagination Aspect Deep Inside

Author:Vishnudevananda Saraswati

“Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.”

Source: The Nature of Generosity

“People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.”

People World Want Firsts Persons Self Imagination Natural Events Aspect Sticks Limitation Sane Indulge Protective Static Indulge In Obstinacy Magnifying

Author:Anais Nin

“Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.”

“Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.”

“I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life changing difference. True or true? Yes or yes? I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. In imagination, there's no limitation. Don't think it, ink it.”

People Thinking Way Want Self Matter Care Imagination Differences Subjects Self Worth Limitation Life Changing Who Cares Ink Things That Matter Net Worth

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.”

Giving Different Self Imagination Identity Ready Giving Up Unique Tests Notion Eras Stable Uncertain Not Ready Unstable Bisexual Glam Androgynous Gayness Ready To Give Up

Author:Todd Haynes

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