Imagination is not bound by possibilities. The creative mind will always break the shackles—making the impossible, possible.
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Quote:- Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as art remained primarily mimetic, the evil which imagination could do was limited by nature. Again, as long as it was treated as an amusement, the evil which it could do was limited in scope. But in an age when the connection between imagination and figuration is beginning to be dimly realized, when the fact of the directionally creator relation is beginning to break through into consciousness, both the good and the evil latent in the working of imagination begin to appear unlimited. We have seen in the Romantic movement an instance of the way in which the making of images may react upon the collective representations. It is a fairly rudimentary instance, but even so it has already gone beyond the dreams and responses of a leisured few. The economic and social structure of Switzerland is noticeably affected by its tourist industry, and that is due only in part to increased facilities of travel. It is due not less to the condition that (whatever may be said about their ‘particles’) the mountains which twentieth-century man sees are not the mountains which eighteenth-century man saw.It may be objected that this is a very small matter, and that it will be a long time before the imagination of man substantially alters those appearances of nature with which his figuration supplies him. But then I am taking the long view. Even so, we need not be too confident. Even if the pace of change remained the same, one who is really sensitive to (for example) the difference between the medieval collective representations and our own will be aware that, without traveling any greater distance than we have come since the fourteenth century, we could very well move forward into a chaotically empty or fantastically hideous world. But the pace of change has not remained the same. It has accelerated and is accelerating. We should remember this, when appraising the aberrations of the formally representational arts. Of course, in so far as these are due to affectation, they are of no importance. But in so far as they are genuine, they are genuine because the artist has in some way or other experienced the world he represents. And in so far as they are appreciated, they are appreciated by those who are themselves willing to make a move towards seeing the world in that way, and, ultimately therefore, seeing that kind of world. We should remember this, when we see pictures of a dog with six legs emerging from a vegetable marrow or a woman with a motorbicycle substituted for her left breast.
Author:- Owen Barfield
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale: Three Complete Books: The Power of Positive Thinking; The Positive Principle Today; Enthusiasm Makes the Difference
Author:- Norman Vincent Peale
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Imagination runs most surely over land that it knows.
The Craft of the Lead Pencil
Author:- Mervyn Peake
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Imagination, the real and eternal world of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow. What is the life of Man but Art and Science?
Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Author:- William Blake
Category:- science
Quote:- Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
Author:- Simon Soloveychik
Category:- hope
Quote:- Imagine a movie where the camera is shaking all the time. It would be the worst movie you've ever seen. You could barely focus on anything that's going on and you'd probably walk out in five minutes.Stillness is everything. It’s an opportunity to observe our chaotic mind and allow it to settle down no matter what else is happening around us.
Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
Author:- Todd Perelmuter
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Imagine a person who keeps looking at places in "Google Maps" app whole day but doesn't actually go to any place.People who live in past or future are like that. They misuse the apps of mind that help us connect with past and future.
Author:- Shunya
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.
Author:- Stephen C. Lundin
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Imagine a working culture where everyone is not looking at faults, but looking at positives. Encouragements are so lacking in today’s busy world. Start trying it first, and one day, someone will do the same for you!
30-Day Creativity Hacks to Abolish the YES BUTs in Life!: A handbook of practical tips for unlocking Creativity
Author:- Marako Marcus
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Imagine a world where are facts, but there are also alternate facts and you have to choose between your set of facts before you reach a conclusion. That would be unlivable!
Author:- John Green
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Author:- David Eagleman
Category:- science
Quote:- Imagine going through hell to try to get heaven...
Author:- Kierra C.T. Banks
Category:- Love
Quote:- Imagine how cool it would be to share this with someone. It's cozy, you can build things from scratch, there's this whole radiation-weather-hermit-hole vibe, endless books, terrible movies, and giant fuck-you monsters wait right outside. Imagine the adventure!
Radio Apocalypse
Author:- Kayleigh Gallagher
Category:- science
Quote:- Imagine if love was for a single use,when would we use it and with whom ?That’s the funny thing about love. We can never be sure that it will lastbut we can feel it over and over again.
Author:- J.WOLF
Category:- best
Quote:- Imagine if their wasn't really an afterlife, but instead a multitude of lives living simultaneously at once. So that when we dreamt, it was connected to our other lives.That means, when one life dies out, the rest keep on going on until there is only one left.
Author:- Anthony T. Hincks
Category:- time
Quote:- Imagine that one day you are out for a walk in the woods. Suddenly you see a small spaceship on the path in front of you. A tiny Martian climbs out the spaceship and stands on the ground looking up at you…What would you think? Never mind, it’s not important. But have you ever given any thought to the fact that you are a Martian yourself?It is obviously unlikely that you will ever stumble upon a creature from another planet. We do not even know that there is life on other planets. But you might stumble upon yourself one day. You might suddenly stop short and see yourself in a completely new light. On just such a walk in the woods. I am an extraordinary being, you think. I am a mysterious creature.You feel as if you are waking from an enchanted slumber. Who am I? you ask. You know that you are stumbling around on a planet in the universe. But what is the universe?If you discover yourself in this manner you will have discovered something as mysterious as the Martian we just mentioned. You will not only have seen a being from outer space. You will feel deep down that you are yourself an extraordinary being.
Sophie's World
Author:- Jostein Gaarder
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
Author:- Anne Enright
Category:- inspiration