"Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal."
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"We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire."
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"You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."
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"Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination."
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"The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery."
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"Your imagination will create many friends"
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"The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!"
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"Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."
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"The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes."
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"One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight."
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"Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality."
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"Without freedom, there is no creation."
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"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."
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"Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste."
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"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."
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"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]"
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"The power of imagination is infinite."
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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
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"We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage."
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"The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own."
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