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.
The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Fairy tales are more than true - not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't.
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.
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
