Quotes About Imagination

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

As Hamlet tells his friend, ''There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try harder to dream!

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Paradise is a state of mind.

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Art is science in the flesh.

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.