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Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

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

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

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

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

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

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

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

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

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

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

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

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

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

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

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

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

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

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

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins