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Quotes About Imaginary

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
~ Jacques Lacan
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."
~ Unknown
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
~ Ambrose Bierce
And often, when the cold government of reason stood unchallenged, he would readily have ceased to sacrifice so many of his intellectual and social interests to this imaginary pleasure.
~ Marcel Proust
In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.
~ John Lennon
Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
~ Seth Godin
In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" --above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.
~ Marianne Moore
Its strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for whats real and whats imaginary.
~ Jason Mraz
No, I impersonated my client. My imaginary client. That I impersonated." I was caught in a loop for a second there.
~ Martha Wells
If ever a monk got to heaven by his monkery, it was I." "Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.
~ Martin Luther
Essence and existence, imaginary and real, visible and invisible -- painting scrambles all our categories, spreading out before us its oneiric universe of carnal essences, actualized resemblances, mute meanings.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
None of it's real. - Pirra
~ Michelle Paver
False elegance is preferable to genuine vulgarity. The man who dwells in an imaginary palace demands more from himself than the man who is happy with his hovel.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Everything is hypothetical in hell.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities… are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Chinaco: traducción inmediata del sans-culotte francés, "sin pantalones". La palabra chinaco se usó México durante la guerra de Independencia pero no se hará popular hasta 1862. Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo: "hicieron del insulto un emblema", en Ciudadanos imaginarios.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
True enough, the idea of a personal Devil is as imaginary as a fairy, or an elf, or a hobgoblin;
~ Paul Carus
The breakthrough for came not from quadratic equations, but rather from cubics which clearly had real solutions but for which the Cardan formula produced formal answers with imaginary components.
~ Unknown