#imaginary

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beliefs #believe #cheese #flat #flat-earth

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#fantasy-love #imaginary-sex #imagination #love #sex

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#fiction #ideology #imaginary #philosophy #real

The imaginary is what tends to become real. ↗

— André Breton

#imaginattion #reality #surrealism #surreal

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

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#always #bed #bristol #channel #comfort

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#between #everything #i #i see #imaginary

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#charged #come #dreams #fish #hood

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#fantastic #imaginary #joys #painted #pursues

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