Quotes about Imagination

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

All our actions—eating, drinking, sleeping, working—are thus potentially Christ's actions. But this potential must be actualized. Instead of a mindless drifting through the insignificant, apparently superficial and nonreligious events of the day, our passive union with Christ can be made active by creative acts of the will, intelligence and imagination.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things

Foolish people imagine that what they imagine is somewhere else. That stuff is not made in any factory but their own.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be expert in home-cosmography.