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1. "Realists suffer more because they realize more reasons for suffering."
Kazimierz Matan
Quotations about: Pain and Tears
2. "Virtual reality is to the real world as preservatives to the food."
Kazimierz Matan
Quotations about: Various
3. "In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
David Ben-Gurion
Quotations about: History and Nations
4. "Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination."
William Hazlitt, "Sketches and Essays"
Quotations about: Various
5. "Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it."
Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"
Gerald Branan, "Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany"
Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Wit and Humor
Khalil Gibran
Quotations about: Woman and Man
8. "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
Tom Robbins
Quotations about: Various
9. "Lost illusions are truths discovered."
Anon.
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity -:- Various
10. "Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible."
Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
Quotations about: Optimism and Hope
11. "Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
Théophile Gautier
Quotations about: Art and Culture
12. "Some people look intelligent when they wear glasses, but it's only an optical illusion."
Anon.
Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement
13. "Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
Quotations about: Life and Death
14. "Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality."
Jean Baudrillard, "Utopia Achieved"
15. "All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
Terry Pratchett
17. "Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings."
Samuel Beckett, "Ill Seen Ill Said"
Quotations about: Wit and Humor
18. "An actor is exactly as big as his imagination."
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Quotations about: Art and Culture
Samuel Johnson
Quotations about: Memory
20. "He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Quotations about: Memory
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Dr Theodor Seuss Geisel
22. "We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
Iris Murdoch
23. "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
Oscar Wilde
Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"
Quotations about: God and Religion
25. "It's not down on any map. True places never are."
Herman Melville
Quotations about: Various
26. "Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact."
Willa Cather, "On Writing"
27. "Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning."
P.J. O`Rourke
Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness
28. "Words express neither objects nor ourselves."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"
Quotations about: Oration and Silence
Quentin Crisp, "The Naked Civil Servant"
Quotations about: Wit and Humor
30. "As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
William James
Quotations about: Science and Technology
31. "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
32. "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
33. "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
Albert Einstein
34. "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
Bertrand Russell
Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
35. "The difference between vision and hallucination is action."
Allen Patmarajah
36. "Imagination is the beginning of creation."
George Bernard Shaw
37. "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
Willa Cather
Quotations about: Memory
38. "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
Anais Nin
Quotations about: Human
39. "Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming."
Coleman Dowell, "October Was Here"
Pablo Picasso
Quotations about: Art and Culture
41. "When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
Ellen Key, "The Woman of the Future"
42. "Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children"
Quotations about: Dreams and Desires
John Updike, "Buchanan Dying"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"
Quotations about: Dreams and Desires
45. "An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination."
George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"
Quotations about: History and Nations
George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"
Quotations about: Dreams and Desires
Charles Baudelaire, "Artificial Paradise"
Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement
48. "Myths which are believed in tend to become true."
George Orwell, "The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters"
49. "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."
Garrison Keillor
50. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Philip K. Dick