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Quotes About Reality

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
~ William Blake
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
~ Immanuel Kant
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
~ Enoch Powell
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
~ Johan Huizinga
The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
~ Mark Twain
The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.
~ Jane Roberts
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
~ Northrop Frye
We live in condensations of our imagination
~ Terence McKenna
Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
~ Samuel Johnson
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
~ Albert Camus
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
~ Cesare Pavese
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
~ Gary Paulsen
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
~ Émile Durkheim
Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
~ Immanuel Kant
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
~ Terence McKenna
The sick are victims of their own imagination.
~ Pol Pot
One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.
~ Richard Wagner
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.
~ Terence McKenna
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
~ Cyril Connolly