Quotes 221 till 240 of 288.
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
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The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
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The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
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The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.
Pensees (1669) -
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
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There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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