A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations…

“The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads. It's not the act of seeing with our eyes…

— Warren Ellis

“[T]he effect of the creation, all its majesty for the feelings and the imagination, is quite lost if the production of the world ……

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.”

— George Eliot

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even…

— Jon Stewart

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become:…

— Luigi Pirandello

Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that…

— Carl Zimmer

She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back…

— James Dashner

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,…

— Jonathan Haidt

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

— H. L. Mencken

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on…

— Bruno Dumont

The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second…

— Sam Harris

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus…

— Ken Wilber