I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I am - you know, I'm getting to do everything I've ever wanted to do, anything my imagination can think up. I'm… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
“I didn’t think you were real for a long time,” I confess. “I thought you were someone I’d dreamed up.” “A dream… — Erica Cameron Copy Share Image
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
“When an incidental color or a random fragrance takes possession of our imagination, we can unexpectedly blossom into a new entity as… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
On one level, all of the characters in 'Game of Thrones' grow out of George R.R. Martin's imagination. Therefore they are his.… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And that's the last chapter of the history of the world: in which we create, through the workings of the imagination, a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Sometimes no matter how strong your imagination is and how many days you spend picturing a life with a woman, she turns… — Nick Viall Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Being led to this different dimension that may cease to exist. Following a teasing angry melody with poison on its lips. Blissfully… — Merrell Thompson Copy Share Image