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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a lot of the time they made decisions about what to do or how to behave that I had no idea were coming down the pike. As I would sit and try to inhabit a character, they themselves in my imagination would have quite a bit of free will.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.

[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

The in­dividual exists only in your imagination. It is just an illusion. When the Atma is one without a sec­ond, when the Atma is everywhere, where is the individual? Only in your imagination. The Atma alone is real. Realize it through meditation.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.

The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!