"Nature has no outline. Imagination has."
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"Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues."
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"I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination."
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"Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead."
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"It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."
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"Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others."
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"If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name."
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"The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information"
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"The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind"
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"The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed."
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"The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination."
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"Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination."
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"Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses."
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"Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in."
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"Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination."
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"If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must pass beyond everything that can be seen and enter into darkness. Since nothing that can be heard is God, to find Him we must enter into silence. Since God cannot be imagined, anything our imagination tells us about Him is ultimately a lie and therefore we cannot know Him as He really is unless we pass beyond everything that can be imagined and enter into an obscurity without images and without the likeness of any created thing."
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"All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience."
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"At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written."
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"Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs"
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"I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world."
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