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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolic devices.

In that way, imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Your imagination has much to do with your life.... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.

Pictures help you to form the mental mould...

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us heavenward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery -- even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness -- is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

To me, this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa .

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, He said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

What makes us human is our capability to imagine, to cast ourselves as the heroes in the mental adventures of our own design. When one stops dreaming one might as well die, for there is nothing for which living is more worthy than one's imagination.