Human Imagination Quotes - Page 2

• Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

  Bill Gates

  Imagination, Microsoft, Factories

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• The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Christian, Imagination, Religion

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

  Jim Rohn

  Knowledge, Imagination, Limits

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 16, 2015

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• You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to unleash your affection, to exhault something or someone above all else. So don't waste your worship on some little god, squandering your birthright on idols made only with human imagination. Guard your worship. And carefully evaluate all potential takers.

  Louie Giglio

  Opportunity, Idols, Worship You

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• What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

  Thomas Carlyle

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.41

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• Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Love, Imagination, Facts

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Ideas, Imagination

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.47, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

  Terence McKenna

  Beautiful, Self, Imagination

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.253, Random House

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Imagination, Triumph

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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• Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Divine Guidance, Government, Organization

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.719, Library of America

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• If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

  Mary Daly

  Inspiring, Long, Imagination

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.40, Beacon Press

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• Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

  Richard Dawkins

  Imagination, Religion, Poetic

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• One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Reality, Play

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• Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

  Cesare Pavese

  Reality, Imagination, Humans

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.109, Transaction Publishers

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• Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Thinking, Imagination, Acting

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Imagination, Exploration, My Favorite

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• Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.

  William Poundstone

  Simple, Imagination, Kangaroos

  "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.

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• Holly is living proof that C.S. Lewis was right when he said that a good atheist can't be too careful of her reading. A lover of the word, she discovered through it the love of the Logos, whose beauty fills all of creation. She found the courage to follow the spilled drops of human imagination back to the One who ‘reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power' (Heb 1:3).

  Mark P. Shea

  Atheist, Reading, Imagination

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• What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic.

  Nevill Drury

  Technology, Essence, Imagination

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• Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, Imagination, Action

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Religious, Hero, Airplane

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

  Christian Wiman

  Spiritual, Mean, Imagination

  Christian Wiman (2013). “My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer”, p.51, Macmillan

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• I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Imagination

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.147, Univ of California Press

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• Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Humility, Greatness, Men

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• There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.

  Clive Barker

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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