Mountain Illusion

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. - Dag Hammarskjold

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. - Arlene Blum

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden