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Quotes About Imagination

A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.
~ Scott D. Anthony
The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.
~ Miranda July
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.
~ Michael Leunig
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
~ Xenophanes
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.
~ John Lennon
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
~ Bede Griffiths
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.
~ Karen Armstrong
There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.
~ Robert Bly
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
~ George Santayana
Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
~ Meher Baba
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
~ Robert Orben
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
~ John Lennon
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.
~ John Arbuthnot
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.
~ John Lennon
I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.
~ Rosanne Cash
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
~ Stephen Hawking
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
~ Walter Scott
Mythology is Fan Fiction - for the Gods.
~ Paul Kemner