imagination

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

As the imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man, so also is this joy of musical expression.

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Reason can answer questions but imagination has to ask them

"The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind"

Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.

We meandered through Billy’s ritzy neighborhood in the general direction of Jefferson Street. In the lamplight the houses looked identical, grand façade after grand façade of pale gray with black windows, as if for all their monumentality they were nothing but wallpaper, black-and-white prints, two-dimensional murals similar in their deceptive insubstantiality to the gossamer buildings of New Age City. I was struck by the idea that Billy and I, to the extent we existed only in our imaginations, were just as shallow, just as superficial—and equally susceptible to being erased without a trace.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. 

I felt exceedingly small, but also exceedingly large, and the things that had once seemed so important now appeared trifling. Actually, those things had never even existed. I’d imagined every last one of them. Nothing ever really existed. Somehow, just then, navigating that cosmic ocean of sky, this was everything I needed to know.