Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
—Maria Mitchell
What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.
—Diane Ackerman
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
—Bertrand Russell
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
—Gilbert Parker
Few people have the imagination for reality.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
—Blaise Pascal
The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.
—Sue Patton Thoele
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What limits people is that they don’t have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.
—Tom Robbins
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
—Helen Rowland
I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again.
—Anna Godbersen in Splendor
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
—Voltaire
Imagination rules the world.
—Napoleon Bonaparte