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IMAGINATIOn quotes
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Imagination is the ruler of our dreams—a circumstance that may account for the peculiar vividness of the impressions they produce.—Let reason be the ruler of our waking thoughts.
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
Irving, Washington
It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that when the real world is shut out it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
Whatever makes the past or future predominate over the present, exalts us in the scale of thinking beings.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, not a quality; its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as the servant of the will.—Imagination, as too often understood, is mere fantasy —the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Imagination rules the world.
Thought convinces; feeling persuades.—If imagination furnishes the fact with wings, feeling is the great, stout muscle which plies them, and lifts him from the ground.—Thought sees beauty; emotion feels it.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations.—There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot enliven it.
Imagination ennobles appetites which in themselves are low, and spiritualizes acts which, else, are only animal.—But the pleasures which begin in the senses only sensualize.
Do what he will, he cannot realize half he conceives.—The glorious vision flies.—Go where he may, he cannot hope to find the truth and beauty which are pictured in his mind.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.—Not being able to enlarge the one, let us contract the other; for it is from their difference that all the evils arise which render us unhappy.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.
The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principal source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied with our present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.
An uncommon degree of imagination constitutes poetical genius.
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