People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them.
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it truth.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
What's reality anyway? Nothing but a collective hunch.
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Memory feeds imagination.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Realists suffer more because they realize more reasons for suffering.
Virtual reality is to the real world as preservatives to the food.
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect.
Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Lost illusions are truths discovered.
Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
Some people look intelligent when they wear glasses, but it's only an optical illusion.
Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.
All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.
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.
Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.
An actor is exactly as big as his imagination.
Imagination selects ideas from the treasures of remembrance, and produces novelty only by varied combinations.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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.
