#imagination

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. ↗

— William Godwin

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Few people have the imagination for reality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. ↗

— Al Gore

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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. ↗

— Al Gore

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Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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