Imaginary Quotes

524 Imaginary quotes by 412 unique authors

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because… — Cesare Beccaria
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it. — Ginnifer Goodwin
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this… — Simone Weil
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of… — Derek Tangye
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid,… — John Green
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested… — C.S. Lewis
There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. — Fumito Ueda
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary — Aron Nimzowitsch
There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the… — Charlotte Dacre
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from… — James Madison
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical… — Karl Marx
A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat… — Christopher Isherwood
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it,… — John Fowles
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other. — Rita Rudner
This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is… — Nathan Farragut Twining
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what… — Mary Wortley Montagu
My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children. — Chris Colfer
How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do. — Penn Jillette
The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary. — Gregg Braden
I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice. — Gale Harold
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of… — Stephen Hawking

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