Quotes About Imagination

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another

Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.

Genius lives only one storey above madness

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison.

It is one great dream dreamed by a single Being, but in such a way that all the dream characters dream too.

The greatest wisdom consists in enjoying the present and making this enjoyment the goal of life, because the present is all that is real and everything else merely imaginary. But you could just as well call this mode of life the greatest folly: for that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream, cannot be worth any serious effort.

La vita e i sogni sono fogli di uno stesso libro. Leggerli in ordine è vivere, sfogliarli a caso è sognare.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else

Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es sei denn in der Mathematik.

This is in the highest degree the case with many of Goethe's and Byron's poems, which are obviously founded upon actual facts; where it is open to a foolish reader to envy the poet because so many delightful things happened to him, instead of envying that mighty power of phantasy which was capable of turning a fairly common experience into something so great and beautiful.

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Cuando oigo música, mi imaginación juega a menudo con la idea de que la vida de todos los hombres y la mía propia no son más que sueños de un espíritu eterno, buenos o malos sueños, de que cada muerte es un despertar.

Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

The true emblem of causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, who, clamping his legs around his horse as it sinks in the water, pulls his pigtail up over his head and raises himself and the horse into the heights; under this emblem, put: causa sui.

Ac?s?z bir duruma bir de can s?k?nt?s?n?n yokluÄŸu eklenirse, iÅŸte o zaman dünyevi mutluluÄŸa büyük ölçüde eriÅŸilmiÅŸtir: Çünkü geri kalan bir hayaldir.

Cuando oigo música, mi imaginación juega a menudo con la idea de que la vida de todos los hombres, y la mía propia, no son más que sueños de un espíritu eterno, buenos o malos; de que cada muerte es un despertar.

every human individual be aware of the inescapable and arbitrary suffering which is set off by the very existence of the will and refrain from using the imaginative power of our mind to envision it otherwise.

Life and dreams are leaves of the same book.

In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things for a few moments, that the most ordinary objects and events appear quite new and unfamiliar. In this way their true nature is disclosed. What is here demanded cannot, perhaps, be said to be difficult; it is not in our power at all, but is just the province of genius.

Bütün budalalar?n ba??na gelen en büyük belafikirlerle ilgilenmemeleridir,ve cans?k?nt?s?ndan kurtulmak için sürekli olarak gerçekliklere ihtiyaç duymalar?d?r.Fakat gerçeklikler ya tatmin edicilikten uzak ya da tehlikelerle doludur; üstelik ilginç olmaktan ç?kt?klar?nda yorucu hale gelirler.Fakat düÅŸünce dünyas? s?n?rs?z,zarars?z ve sakindir.