Top 1200 Imagination And Reality Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between human beings. . . . The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by the imagination that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

The best thing as an actor, the best tool you have is your imagination. That you kind of take things that have happened, and then go and expand on them. However small it is, you use your imagination to create what that reality is. There's something kind of fun when you're not old enough to do anything, driving a car, getting into a bar, drinking, going to a party you don't belong to, something when you're young in that innocent way.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.

Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am still of the same opinion. Imagination, industry [hard work], and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me understand my own loss of innocence.

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.

Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.