Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
Man lives by imagination.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
The imagination is man's power over nature.
I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.
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