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• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagination, Impossible

• I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

  Duane Michals

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cannot, Infinitely, Imagination, Important

• If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Human, Imagination, Imagine

• I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

  Elinor Wylie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Heaven, Imagination, Imagine

• What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

  Kerry Thornley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagination, Imagine

• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Our, Canvas, World, Imagination

• That is the definition of faith — acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  Dan Brown

  Topics in Religion, Truth

  Tags in Proof, Acceptance, Faith, Imagination

• The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Worship, Character, Faith, Imagination

• A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Perception, Patriotism, Heart, Imagination

• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  Walter Lippmann

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Understanding, Imagination

• The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Confusion, Mistake, Truth

  Tags in Illusions, Observation, Understanding, Imagination

• Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it’s too often the art of the probable — tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Politics, Vision

  Tags in Optimism, Imagination

• Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Fear, Suffering

  Tags in Illusions, Imagination

• Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

  Unknown

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Plans, Enthusiasm, Imagination

• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

   

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Topics in Genius, Love

  Tags in Imagination

• Heaven is so far of the Mind
  That were the Mind dissolved—
  The Site—of it—by Architect
  Could not again be proved—

  ‘Tis vast—as our Capacity—
  As fair—as our idea—
  To Him of adequate desire
  No further ’tis, than Here—

  Emily Dickinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Immortality, Heaven, Imagination

• By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Topics in Belief, Ideals

  Tags in Imagination

• Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Imagination

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Imagination

• It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown.

  Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Imagination