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Letter "I" » Imagination
«This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.»
«We ultimately inhabit the landscape of our own imaginings.»
«To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.»
«We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.»
«This, therefore, is a faded dream of the time when I went down into the dust and noise of the Eastern market-place, and with my brain and muscles, with sweat and constant thinking, made others see my visions coming true. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.»
«To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.»
«This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
canvas, imagination
«To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Change,
Imagination,
Science
| Keywords:
advance, angle, angles, angling, creative, imagination, Marks, possibilities, problems, questions, raise, regard, requires, science
«Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
beautiful, elegant, graceful, handsome, handsomer, handsomest, imagination, not yet, pretty, Pretty Things, rich, speak, yet
«Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
Imagination
| Keywords:
chambermaid
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