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“If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.”

Ifs Years May Long Art Country Able Culture Imagination Christianity One Thing Capture

Author:Rowan Williams

“What man can imagine he may one day achieve.”

Men Inspirational May Imagination Imagine Achieve One Day

Book:The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing

Source: The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing

“As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.”

Wells May Ideas Science Term Imagination Answers Imagine Revolution Confusion Explanation You Choose Vague Catastrophe Stopping Inquiry Obscurity Disadvantages Involving

Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope

“An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.”

May Strong Imagination Drink Fanaticism Intoxicated Strong Drink Overindulgence

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'?”

Should May Art Joy Imagination Ambition Feminist Theme Introducing Incapable Flawless Creeks Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”

Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age

“It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.”

World May Littles Made Different Real Facts Force Imagination Memories Creation Absolutes Available Deception Wicked Arbitrary Dolls Outside World Dummy Real Women

Book:The Guermantes Way

Source: The Guermantes Way

“To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.”

Ifs Believe May Mean Reality Imagination Greater Risk Havens Comfort Obvious Suits Zone Exploration Comfort Zone Parallels Risk It Suits You

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.”

May Long Real Moving Artist Imagination Natural Existence Brain Wander Justify Phenomenon Natural Phenomena

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.”

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world

“You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.”

Thinking May Funny America Imagination Stupidity Commit Plus

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.”

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.”

May Said Might Imagination Possibility Position Degrees Enormous Certainty Vancouver

Author:Homer

“Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.”

Wells May Faces Imagination Alive Planets Dinosaurs

Author:Steve Miller