Quotes by Imagination Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new. Thomas Merton lightimaginationart The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar. Thomas Paine imaginationbelievejesus He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Thomas Paine imaginationheartreality The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. Thomas Jefferson love-lifefavorsimagination We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination. Thomas Merton trust-in-godimaginationmean When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. Tim Berners-Lee limitscreativeimagination Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination. Tim Burton drawingimaginationexercise I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. Thomas Sowell imaginationfactsworld One of the great things about cartoons is that they're not real - you're not watching real people and it engages your imagination. One of the cornerstones of America is that we are creative thinkers. We're innovators. Tim Daly realimaginationpeople The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding. Tim Girvin designimaginationdream We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation Thomas Merton obscurekindimagination If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must pass beyond everything that can be seen and enter into darkness. Since nothing that can be heard is God, to find Him we must enter into silence. Since God cannot be imagined, anything our imagination tells us about Him is ultimately a lie and therefore we cannot know Him as He really is unless we pass beyond everything that can be imagined and enter into an obscurity without images and without the likeness of any created thing. Thomas Merton silenceimaginationlying The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination. Thomas Sowell societyproblemimagination Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. Tim Robbins imaginationartthinking Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination. Tim Tharp boredomimaginationpeople A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind. Tim O'Brien miracleimaginationlaw Imagination is a killer. Tim O'Brien killersimagination Imagination, like reality, has its limits. Tim O'Brien limitsimaginationreality Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage. Timothy Spall cagesbeastimagination if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities Tite Kubo bleachimaginationperfect«149150151152153154155156157158159»
