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His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.