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If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.
What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.
What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.
Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.
When I was a child, Lego came in brick form, you'd buy boxes of random bricks. You used your imagination and your mind in your build.
I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.
my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.
Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?
The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.