"Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people."
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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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"[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life."
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"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive."
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"Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates."
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"Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination."
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"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
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"The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw."
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"Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination."
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"Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy."
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"Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world."
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"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
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"No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven."
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"Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together."
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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"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."
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"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts."
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"Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be."
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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
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"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all."
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