Quotes About Imagination

En el mundo interior no hay en cambio ni trabajo ni monotonía. Lo visitamos únicamente en sueños o en la meditación, y su maravilla es tal que nunca encontramos el mismo mundo en dos sucesivas ocasiones. ¿Cómo puede extrañar entonces que los seres humanos, en su busca de lo divino, hayan preferido

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly.

For Monet, on this occasion, water lilies were the measure of water lilies; and so he painted them.

The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

The genius of life is to take the spirit of childhood into old age.

The word 'escape' was suggestive

I should like a thoroughly bad climate," he answered. "I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth

Just imagine," he went on, "preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Galbe. That was a good word; but it was French. Le galbe evase de ses hanches: had one ever read a French novel in which that phrase didn't occur? Some day he would compile a dictionary for the use of novelists. Galbe, gonfle, goulu: parfum, peau, pervers, potele, pudeur: vertu, volupte

The point, Susila answered, is to get people to understand that we're not completely at the mercy of our memory and our phantasies. If we're disturbed by what's going on inside our heads, we can do something about it. It's all a question of being shown what to do and then practicing— the way one learns to write or play the flute. What those children you saw here were being taught is a very simple technique—a technique that we'll develop later on into a method of liberation.

Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds. Bottled, they crossed the street; bottled, they took the lift up to Henry's room on the twenty-eight floor.

Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.

If you go to New South Wales, you will see marsupials hopping about the countryside. And if you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures at least as odd as kangaroos. You do not invent these creatures any more than you invent marsupials.

Seguí alí, y sin embargo no estaba allí; estaba siempre lejos, infinitamente lejos, de vacaciones; de vacaciones en algún otro mundo, donde la música de la radio era un laberinto de sonoros colores, un laberinto resbaladizo, palpitante que guiaba (y por qué hermosos e inevitables rodeos) a un brillante centro de certidumbre absoluta...

And now it was a dozen hornbills hopping, like fragments of a disordered imagination, through a cloud of orchids.

Bu adam bir düÅŸünürdü,eÄŸer düÅŸünürün anlam?n? biliyorsan?z. VahÅŸi haz?rcevap bir biçimde Yeryüzü ve gökyüzündeki ÅŸeylerden daha az?n? hayal eden biri. dedi.

O que nos leva por fim - continuou o Sr. Foster - a deixar o domínio da simples imitação servil da natureza para entrar no mundo mais interessante da invenção humana

Ca?y k?opot z fikcj? literack? polega na tym - rzek? John Rivers - ?e za du?o w niej sensu. W rzeczywisto?ci nigdy nie ma sensu

Uno puede tomarse unas vacaciones de la realidad siempre que se le antoje, y volver de las mismas sin siquiera un dolor de cabeza o una mitología

Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.

Ah, revenge, revenge. In the better world of the imagination it was possible to get one's own back. What fiendish vendettas were there carried to successful ends!