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Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

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

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

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

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

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

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

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass