Reality and Imagination

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

Iris Murdoch

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Oscar Wilde

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Clive Staples Lewis "Mere Christianity"

God and Religion

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Herman Melville

Reality and Imagination

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Willa Cather "On Writing"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

P.J. O`Rourke

Beauty and Ugliness

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Words express neither objects nor ourselves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sayings in Prose"

Oration and Silence

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Reality and Imagination

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William James

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Carl Sagan

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Mark Twain

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Albert Einstein

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The difference between vision and hallucination is action."

Allen Patmarajah

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

George Bernard Shaw

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Willa Cather

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Anais Nin

Human

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Coleman Dowell "October Was Here"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Ellen Key "The Woman of the Future"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Salman Rushdie "Midnight's Children"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination."

George Bernard Shaw "John Bull's Other Island"

History and Nations

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Intellect, Judgement

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

George Orwell "The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Garrison Keillor

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Philip K. Dick

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Courage and Fear

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays, Second Series"

Life and Death

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."

Jane Wagner

Pain and Tears

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."

Shirley Abbott

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

Ursula K. Le Guin

Human

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people."

George Bernard Shaw

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."

Ian McEwan

Politics and Diplomacy

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Let us be realistic and demand the impossible."

graffito - Paris 1968

Inscriptions etc.

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."

Thomas Berger

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

John Lennon

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"[...] parables are unnecessary for recognizing the blatant absurdity of everyday life. Reality is lesson enough."

Jane O`Reilly "The Girl I Left Behind"

Life and Death

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Love

Reality and Imagination

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

Walter Bagehot "The English Constitution"

Power and Weakness

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."

Luigi Pirandello "Six Characters in Search of an Author"

Nature and Animals

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."

Luigi Pirandello "Six Characters in Search of an Author"

Reality and Imagination

Time and Passing

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."

Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"

Question and Problem

Reality and Imagination

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."

George Santayana "The Life of Reason"

Reality and Imagination

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)