"Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any."
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"Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness."
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"My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process was especially magnified within the fevers of influenza, measles, chickenpox, and mumps. I got them all and with each I was privileged with a new level of awareness. Lying deep within myself, the symmetry of a snowflake spinning above me, intensifying through my lids, I seized a most worthy souvenir, a shard of heaven’s kaleidoscope."
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"The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety."
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"Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are."
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"I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again."
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"Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief."
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"Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares."
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"When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere."
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"Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe."
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"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
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"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
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"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision."
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"We live in condensations of our imagination"
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"I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination."
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"Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination."
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"...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)"
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"Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it."
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"Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite."
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."
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