#imaginary

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#away #beings #enough #giving #goodness

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ↗

— William H. Seward

#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. ↗

— Paul Harris

#imaginary #man #priestly #primitive #real

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. ↗

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

#been #devotions #during #expedition #henry

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#children #condition #dead #formerly #happiness

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. ↗

— Norton Juster

#fantasy #fiction #humor #illusions #imaginary

My life exists in an imagined reality. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#imagination #life #reality #imagination

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#astray #completely #conjecture #contact #enterprise

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing. ↗

— Greg Bear

#apart #back #better #coming #danger

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#brother #dreaming #every #family #imaginary