Imaginary Quotes - Page 13

• The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Reality, Men, Numbers

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• It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego
  because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself
  It is like a wave
  it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really
  it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again
  pulls itself together with pride
  towers with pride
  rushes forward into imaginary conquest
  crashes in frustration
  withdraws with remorse and repentance
  pulls itself together with new resolution

  Agnes Martin

  Pride, Frustration, Ego

  Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway (1973). “Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

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• Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience.

  Leonard Rose

  Play, People, Important

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• Sometimes I`m stressed and I`m sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you`re taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different. But also the main characters are completely real and modern so you can relate to them.

  Evanna Lynch

  Real, Taken, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.

  Brian Stableford

  Real, Order, People

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• My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

  Amy Plum

  Mom, Real, Heart

  Amy Plum (2016). “Inside the World of Die for Me”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

  Lee Ryan

  Imaginary Friend, Stills

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• I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been.

  Tim Walker

  Photography, Stuff, Disappear

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• All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Imagination, Mind, Acting

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• Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Firm, Stand Firm, Imaginary Things

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist.

  Thomas Merton

  Heart, Humility, Thinking

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• One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.

  Jessica Zafra

  Introducing, Advantage, Stolen

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

  John Climacus

  Pride, Light, Soul

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.209, Paulist Press

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• Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also how much fun it was — losing myself in these imaginary worlds.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.

  Robert Moss

  Imagination, Stronger, Results

  Robert Moss (2009). “The Three "Only" Things (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.249, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Creating, Islands

  The Paris Review Interview, Fall 1965.

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• What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.

  Rumi

  Heart, Humans

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• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

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• Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"

  John Ross Macduff

  Strong, People, Evil

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• She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

  Cesar Millan

  Real, Healing, Mean

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• Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Art, Math, Emotional

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• The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

  Karl Marx

  Flower, Men, Agnostic

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• Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Real, Two

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• If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Character, Mean, Science

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• If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Imagination, Mind

  Song: Everybody Has A Dream, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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