There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

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

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

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.

And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... read more

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the read more

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be read more

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.