Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 424 authors

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. — Louis Althusser
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in… — Marquis de Sade
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of… — Pierre Bourdieu
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with… — Alain Badiou
Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it… — Robert E. Lee
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. — Raymond Queneau
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… — George Eliot
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary… — Barbara Sher
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. — Barbara Sher
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound… — Nicola Chiaromonte
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments… — Adam Thirlwell
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves… — Manuel Puig
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency… — Jean Baudrillard
Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can… — Bob Geldof
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. — Gottfried Leibniz
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off… — Kabir
When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes… — Michael Shannon
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be… — Jorge Luis Borges
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it… — Ken Follett
Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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