Henry Corbin creates the world - most of all his examination of the imagination and what the imagination was for him. Some… — Ben Chasny Copy Share Image
If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
“When misfortune has thrown us a curveball, and the tentacles of desperation are freezing our mind, foreshadowing a hustle-bustle of confusion, we… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct,… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
“Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:—in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of… — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When… — Shiloh Fernandez Copy Share Image
The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean,… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
“...And yet a knowledge is here that tenses the throat as for song: the inheritance of the ones, alive or once alive,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is like alcohol - too much is bad for you, a little bit makes the world a better place. Like an… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He's a coach with extraordinary knowledge, who loves the club loads, he feels it, he has exceptional bravery and charisma, so for… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
![“I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I…” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d4a/george-sand-1753_chiefs_i-loved-fairy-stories-so-and-my-mother-w_1388127.jpg)
