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21 " The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality. "
― Esther Perel
22 " We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act. "
― Ron Garan , The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
23 " I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image. "
24 " As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege. I've tried my whole life simply to accept the images that present themselves to me without trying to analyze them. I remember when we were shooting That Obscure Object of Desire in Seville and I suddenly found myself telling Fernando Rey, at the end of a scene, to pick up a big sack filled with tools lying on a bench, sling it over his shoulder, and walk away. The action was completely irrational, yet it seemed absolutely right to me. Still, I was worried about it, so I shot two versions of the scene: one with the sack, one without. But during the rushes the following day, the whole crew agreed that the scene was much better with the sack. Why? I can't explain it, and I don't enjoy rummaging around in the cliches of psychoanalysis. "
― Luis Buñuel , My Last Sigh
25 " We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. "
― N. Scott Momaday
26 " Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. "
― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
27 " We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion. "
― Nilantha Ilangamuwa
28 " Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts should have been perfected, not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason, but by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations, each good for the individual possessor. Nevertheless, this difficulty, though appearing to our imagination insuperably great, cannot be considered real if we admit the following propositions, namely,— that gradations in the perfection of any organ or instinct, which we may consider, either do now exist or could have existed, each good of its kind,— that all organs and instincts are, in ever so slight a degree, variable,— and, lastly, that there is a struggle for existence leading to the preservation of each profitable deviation of structure or instinct. The truth of these propositions cannot, I think, be disputed. "
― Charles Darwin , The Origin of Species
29 " although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic. "
― Italo Calvino , Six Memos For The Next Millennium
30 " It seems to me that all the people involved in the Hank and Adria story thought they were doing something good. But they only revealed that our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow, that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of the shamers had themselves come from a place of shame, and it really felt parochial and self-defeating to instinctively slap shame onto shame like a clumsy builder covering cracks. "
― Jon Ronson , So You've Been Publicly Shamed
31 " Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company. "
― Marcel Proust , The Guermantes Way
32 " The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. "
― Charles Lamb
33 " I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. "
― Will Durant , The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
34 " The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity. "
35 " The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. "
36 " I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in. "
37 " Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves. "
38 " Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite. "
39 " We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. "
40 " Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. "