A Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Imaginary evils are incurable.
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Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
When I heard 'incurable'... incurable is a tough word.
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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