Quotes about Imagination

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. [Allein schon das Wissen, dass einen am Ende eines langen Tages ein gutes Buch erwartet, macht diesen Tag zu einem glücklicheren.]

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

You can make anything by writing.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside- and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment....'They knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams,Carl Jung

In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'