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Category: Reality and Imagination

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1. "In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."

David Ben-Gurion

Other categories: History and Nations

2. "Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination."

William Hazlitt, "Sketches and Essays"

Other categories: Various

3. "Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it."

Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

4. "Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect."

Gerald Branan, "Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany"

Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Wit and Humor

5. "Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born."

Khalil Gibran

Other categories: Woman and Man

6. "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

Tom Robbins

Other categories: Various

7. "Lost illusions are truths discovered."

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Other categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Various

8. "Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Optimism and Hope

9. "Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."

Théophile Gautier

Other categories: Art and Culture

10. "Some people look intelligent when they wear glasses, but it's only an optical illusion."

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Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

11. "Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Life and Death

12. "Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality."

Jean Baudrillard, "Utopia Achieved"

13. "All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

14. "Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."

Terry Pratchett

15. "Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings."

Samuel Beckett, "Ill Seen Ill Said"

Other categories: Wit and Humor

16. "An actor is exactly as big as his imagination."

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Other categories: Art and Culture

17. "Imagination selects ideas from the treasures of remembrance, and produces novelty only by varied combinations."

Samuel Johnson

Other categories: Memory

18. "He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Other categories: Memory

19. "Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

Dr Theodor Seuss Geisel

20. "We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."

Iris Murdoch

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21. "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

22. "Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

Other categories: God and Religion

23. "It's not down on any map. True places never are."

Herman Melville

Other categories: Various

24. "Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact."

Willa Cather, "On Writing"

25. "Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning."

P.J. O`Rourke

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

26. "Words express neither objects nor ourselves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"

Other categories: Oration and Silence

27. "If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist."

Quentin Crisp, "The Naked Civil Servant"

Other categories: Wit and Humor

28. "As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

William James

Other categories: Science and Technology

29. "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

Carl Sagan

30. "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Mark Twain

31. "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

Albert Einstein

32. "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

Bertrand Russell

Other categories: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

33. "The difference between vision and hallucination is action."

Allen Patmarajah

34. "Imagination is the beginning of creation."

George Bernard Shaw

35. "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."

Willa Cather

Other categories: Memory

36. "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Anais Nin

Other categories: Human

37. "Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming."

Coleman Dowell, "October Was Here"

38. "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

Pablo Picasso

Other categories: Art and Culture

39. "When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination."

Ellen Key, "The Woman of the Future"

40. "Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

Salman Rushdie, "Midnight’s Children"

Other categories: Dreams and Desires

41. "Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows."

John Updike, "Buchanan Dying"

42. "There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

Other categories: Dreams and Desires

43. "An Irishman’s heart is nothing but his imagination."

George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull’s Other Island"

Other categories: History and Nations

44. "Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real."

George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull’s Other Island"

Other categories: Dreams and Desires

45. "Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."

Charles Baudelaire, "Artificial Paradise"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

46. "Myths which are believed in tend to become true."

George Orwell, "The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters"

47. "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

Garrison Keillor

48. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Philip K. Dick

49. "We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."

Eric Hoffer

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

50. "Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, Second Series"

Other categories: Life and Death

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