Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Wit is the appearance the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity and the witty character of mysticism.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
But if I have a lot of imagination I could tell myself whatever I wanted you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination the whole world opens up to you.
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of imagination.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Growing up I didn't have a lot of toys and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
It is all very well to copy what one sees but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness however small is ever wasted.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict are antagonistic it is always the imagination which wins without any exception.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection which makes us believe and it is not true that as children we were imaginative?
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination investors who take risks and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.