The difference between imaginary and real object creates a…

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can…

— Barbara Kingsolver

There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in…

— Joe Hill

Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

— Alan Kay

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

— George Santayana

The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.

— John Cage

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

— Paul Klee

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

— Simone Weil

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the…

— Joseph Joubert

Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in…

— Alison Gopnik

Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of…

— Baruch Spinoza

“enjoying the danger—more imaginary than real, yet still sweet.”

— Mikhail Iossel

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

— Thomas Betterton