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  A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

  Isaac Newton

  Uplifting, Men, Understanding

  Sir Isaac Newton (1950). “Theological Manuscripts: Selected and Edited with an Introd. by H. McLachlan”

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• When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation.

  Jørgen Leth

  Believe, Inspiration, Calculations

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Hollywood, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

  Wallace Stevens

  Irrepressible

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• Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

  C. J. Anderson

  Clever, Reality, Use

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• I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

  Nikola Tesla

  Race, Years, Vivid Imagination

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• Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

  Carol J. Adams

  Vegetarianism, Meat, Alternatives

  Carol J. Adams (1990). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, Continuum

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• Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Joy, World, Might

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.139, Routledge

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• Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Enzymes, Plant

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• The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Way, Catalyst

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• For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Thinking, Independence

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• Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

  Brian Tracy

  Energy, Wealth Creation, Springboards

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.31, Jaico Publishing House

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• For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?

  Witold Rybczynski

  Home, Wander, Ifs

  Witold Rybczynski (1990). “Most Beautiful House in the World”, Turtleback

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• Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

  Hermann Hesse

  Remember, Strict

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

  Albert Camus

  Made, Myth, Breaths

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Writing, Quality, Prejudice

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”

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• Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them.

  Benedetto Croce

  Art, Real, Doe

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• Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ambition, Plus

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• Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

  Ray Bradbury

  Civilization, Important, Use

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• Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Real, Hero, Past

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• The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

  William Blake

  World, Body, Eternity

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.555, Univ of California Press

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• Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Creativity, Desire

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• Reason is nothing without imagination.

  Rene Descartes

  Reason

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• Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Memories, Records, Computer

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• The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

  Napoleon Hill

  Creative

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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