#imaginary

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

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 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

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

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#given #imaginary #life #most #movies

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land. ↗

— Noah Hathaway

#comes #fantasia #imaginary #land

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#die #difficulties #exist #foothills #imaginary

These are facts, these are not imaginary things. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#imaginary #these #things

I'm not interested in an imaginary world. ↗

— Edward Bond

#imaginary #imaginary world #interested #not interested #world

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#constant #constant need #doing #far #feel