“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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“Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?”
— Barbara Corcoran
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Imagination rules the world.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.”
— Paul Wolfowitz
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“If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.”
— Miranda Otto
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“We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
— Wallace Stevens
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“Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.”
— William Robertson Smith
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