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Imagination Quotes by George Santayana
- I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
- Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity…
- Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
- Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
- Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it…
- It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
- The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
- To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best,…
- Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
More Imagination Quotes
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard
- I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana