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Category: Reality and Imagination

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1. "How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!"

Logan Pearsall Smith, "Afterthoughts"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

2. "The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"

3. "The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."

Carl Gustav Jung, "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

4. "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."

Immanuel Kant

Quotations about: Happiness

5. "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6. "All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

7. "What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Art and Culture

8. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

9. "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Love -:- Intellect, Judgement

10. "The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Father Brown Mystery Series"

11. "The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination."

Henry Miller

Quotations about: Art and Culture

12. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Quotations about: Life and Death

13. "Reality is a poor substitute for my dreams."

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Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

14. "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldous Huxley

15. "A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Art and Culture

16. "The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity."

Clive Staples Lewis

17. "The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Letters and Social Aims"

18. "Fairy tales are more than true - not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

19. "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein

20. "Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

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21. "Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."

Henry Miller

Quotations about: God and Religion

22. "Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde

23. "Imagination is the eye of the soul."

Joseph Joubert

24. "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

25. "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."

Lev Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Love

26. "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

27. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Science and Technology

28. "Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity."

George Eliot, "Adam Bede"

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