Quotes About Imagination

Obviously, political activism means creatively using available tools and material resources, but it should not entail imagining the tools themselves to have intrinsic redemptive values.

Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge or infinite mountains over my head.

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

People may love a God of their own imaginations, when they are far from loving such a God as reigns in heaven.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.

Instead of limiting your imagination by current circumstances and constraints, imagine a world in which some key constraints don't exist, and ask yourself how you or your institution might respond.

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If you could jerk off to something else, like a hamburger, could you imagine the delight in being alive?

Wishing for a fantasy life is easier than the pursuit of real goals.

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know.

Our life is the creation of our mind

And she draws Boethius's imagination far up into the heavens so that he can look down on the Earth and see it as a tiny speck on which even tinier people play out their comical and ultimately insignificant ambitions. She gets him to admit that riches and fame bring anxiety and avarice, not peace and happiness.

Marcel Proust wrote that "the only true voyage . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes."41

Life is what we deem it, and our lives are the creations of our minds.

A painter paints pictures on canvas, but a musician paints pictures on silence.

Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. —

a reason why not. And—and, let's pretend

The human imagination abhors a vacuum, after all, and seeks to fill in the blanks in a life or a history

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation.