680 private quotes tagged imagination

“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.” — Marquis de Sade

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“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” — Immanuel Kant

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“To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.” — Thomas Traherne

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“As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.” — Bharati Mukherjee

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“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” — Stephen Covey

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“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.” — Simone Weil

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“If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.” — Jason Statham

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“I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.” — Anna Deavere Smith

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“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.” — Walt Disney

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“If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.” — Horace Walpole

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“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.” — Joseph Addison

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“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” — Simone Weil

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“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.” — Epictetus

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.” — E. E. Cummings

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“Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.” — Duane Michals

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“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” — Jessamyn West

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“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” — James Russell Lowell

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