Human Imagination Quotes

51 quotes by 45 authors

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its… — John Berger
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every… — Jacob Bronowski
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least… — Frank Lloyd Wright
I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the… — William Blake
Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us. — Christian Wiman
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.… — Andrea Dworkin
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate… — Norman Cousins
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. — Luigi Pirandello
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. — Camille Paglia
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence… — John Noble
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of… — Northrop Frye
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us.… — Northrop Frye
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud
I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and… — Philip Larkin
I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the… — Tom Peters
Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits. — Katherine Anne Porter
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever… — Frances Wright
You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to… — Louie Giglio
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that… — Thomas Carlyle

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