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The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream - he awoke and found it truth.
Imagination | Truth |
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is quite another.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections., the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be the truth- whether it existed before or not,- for I have the same idea of all our passions as of Love: they are all, in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty.
Beauty | Heart | Imagination | Love | Nothing | Truth | Beauty |
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination – what the imagination seizes as being must be truth – whether it existed before or not.
Heart | Imagination | Nothing | Truth |
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
Beauty | Imagination | Truth | Beauty |
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Imagination | Learning |
Thoughts have a higher dwelling place than the visible world, and its skies are not clouded by sensuality. Imagination finds a road to the realm of the gods, and there man can glimpse that which is to be after the soul's liberation from the world of substance.
Imagination | Man | Sensuality | Soul | World |
Laurence J. Peter, fully Laurence Johnston Peter
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
Louis D. Brandeis, fully Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Lack of imagination causes cruelty.
Cruelty | Imagination |
Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu NULL
The word “prayer” is applied to at least four distinct procedures - petition, intercession, adoration, contemplation. Petition is the asking of something for ourselves. Intercession is the asking of something for other people. Adoration is the use of intellect, feeling, will and imagination in making acts of devotion directed towards God in his personal aspect or as incarnated in human form. Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
Contemplation | Devotion | God | Imagination | People | Prayer | Soul | Will | God | Contemplation |
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
Imagination | People | Self | Self-interest | Understand |
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination of the wonder or beauty of their unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it become so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.
Beauty | Education | Imagination | Little | Magic | Regard | Unique | Wonder | Beauty |
Life seems to me like a Japanese picture which our imagination does not allow to end with the margin. We aim at the infinite and when our arrow falls to earth it is in flames.
Earth | Imagination | Life | Life |
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.
Culture | Imagination | Spirit | Time |
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Imagination | Time |
We should never allow ourselves to be persuaded excepting by the evidence of our Reason, of our Reason and not our imagination nor of our senses.
Evidence | Imagination | Reason |
Robert Fulghum, fully Robert Lee Fulghum
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge; that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts; that hope always triumphs over experience; that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe love is stronger than death.
Death | Dreams | Experience | Grief | History | Hope | Imagination | Knowledge | Laughter | Love | Myth |
William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
Beauty | Conscience | God | Heart | Imagination | Love | Mind | Purpose | Purpose | Truth | Will | Worship | Beauty |