“That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.”
— George Berkeley
Author: George Berkeley
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, George Berkeley
Category: imagination
A rock pile ceases to be a
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To them though, not to us, we
“To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.”
— Donald Sutherland
Author: Donald Sutherland
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Donald Sutherland
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are
“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Oliver Wendell Holmes
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
— Albert Einstein
Author: Albert Einstein
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Albert Einstein
I am better able to imagine hell
“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.”
— Elinor Wylie
Author: Elinor Wylie
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Elinor Wylie
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure
“Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.”
— Edward Abbey
Author: Edward Abbey
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Edward Abbey
The nose of a mob is its
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Edgar Allan Poe
The human imagination has already come to
“The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.”
— Edmund Wilson
Author: Edmund Wilson
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Edmund Wilson
A nickname is the heaviest stone that
“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
— William Hazlitt
Author: William Hazlitt
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, William Hazlitt
An idea is salvation by imagination.
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Frank Lloyd Wright