Quotes by Imagination The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest. Frederick Busch interestimaginationculture Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it. Frederick The Great imaginationeuropefiction Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it. Frederick The Great romanceimaginationeurope If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in. Frederick Buechner eyeartistimagination This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever. Freya Stark imaginationriverslying God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost. Frederick William Robertson imaginationgodheaven If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination. Freeman Dyson imaginationwould-bereality We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine. Francois de La Rochefoucauld imagineimaginationfortune One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination. Freeman Dyson imaginationeducationscience If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds. Friedrich August von Hayek issuesimaginationchallenges Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us. Freeman Dyson nomenclatureimaginationscience They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them. G. H. Hardy ramanujanbeing-trueimagination Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets. Gabriel Garcia Marquez making-loveimaginationmen The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. Gaetano Salvemini jigsaw-puzzlesimaginationhistory The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates. Friedrich Schiller imaginationlyingideas Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld imaginationheartnumbers For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality. Gail Levin originalityimaginationart Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. Gabriel Garcia Marquez caribbeanimaginationreality Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld imaginationdoeheart ...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. Fyodor Dostoevsky imaginationsay-anythingworld«4546474849505152535455»
