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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination -- William Blake
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. -- Daniel Bell
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. -- James Cameron
The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination. -- Bernard Werber
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. -- Luigi Pirandello
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. -- Edmund Wilson
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. -- Bryant H. McGill
Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend. -- Brenda Laurel
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. -- John Berger
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. -- Michael Leunig
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. -- Jacob Bronowski
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. -- John Updike
Imagination, not intelligence, made us human. -- Terry Pratchett
Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality. -- Cesare Pavese
Touch the sky of human imagination. Read fantasy. -- A.E. Marling
Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul. -- Alister E. McGrath
Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
The human race is governed by its imagination. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination is the source of all human achievement. -- Ken Robinson
Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness. -- Ken Robinson
Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination. -- Bill Gates
... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. -- Daniel Bell
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. -- James F. Cooper
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times. -- Barbara Hambly
Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination. -- Fidel Castro
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. -- William Blake
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination. -- Douglas Adams
The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending. -- Jim Rohn
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? -- Rollo May
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. -- Ken Robinson
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. -- Sigmund Freud
The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination. -- Doug Casey
The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global -- Marilynne Robinson
Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. -- Ronald Reagan
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. -- Margaret Atwood
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. -- Maria Montessori
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. -- Northrop Frye
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it. -- Toni Morrison
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth. -- Ken Robinson
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race. -- Buzz Aldrin
Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. -- Albert Einstein
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you -- Barry Lopez
Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us. -- Christian Wiman
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. -- Camille Paglia
And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create. -- Dean Koontz
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired. -- Terence McKenna
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder -- Ronald Reagan
Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species. -- Erma Bombeck
Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits. -- Katherine Anne Porter
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination. -- Samuel Butler
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action. -- Jerome Ravetz
A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution. -- T.F. Hodge
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet. -- Terence McKenna
I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. -- Alan Moore
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination. -- Norman Douglas
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration. -- Napoleon Hill
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. -- Robert Genn
The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility. -- Vanna Bonta
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. -- Richard Dawkins
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying. -- Ivan KlÃma
One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing. -- Rosamond Lehmann
It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses? -- James Cameron
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius -- William Crashaw
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us. -- Terence McKenna
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination. -- Mary Daly
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character. -- John Abercrombie
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention. -- Alain Robbe-Grillet
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination. -- Terence McKenna
In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination? -- Martin Guevara Urbina
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. -- Stephen Covey
The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety. -- Terence McKenna
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes. -- Timothy Garton Ash
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky... -- John Noble
The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination. -- Wim Wenders
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. -- Terence McKenna
One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be. -- Denis Waitley
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it -- Thomas Carlyle
Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo. -- Hilda Doolittle

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