God and the imagination are one.

In the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

“You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”

“I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.”

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”

“they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the”

“It is from this very illusion of the imagination, that the foresight of our own dissolution is so terrible to us, and that the idea of those circumstances, which undoubtedly can give us no pain when we are dead, makes us miserable while we are alive. And from thence arises one of the most important principles in human nature, the dread of death, the great poison to the happiness, but the great restraint upon the injustice of mankind, which, while it afflicts and mortifies the individual, guards and protects the society.”

“In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns.”

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all”

“The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

"I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right."

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

"We are what we imagine ourselves to be."

"Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination."

"Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough."