Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Strange Quotes

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

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By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

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When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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Work up imagination to the state of vision.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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