Imaginary Quotes - Page 20

• My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Father, Humor

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Hard Times, Ordinary World

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, ... are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Justice, Heaven

  "Let Your Sins Be Strong". A Letter From Luther to Melanchthon, Letter no. 99, AUgust 1, 1521.

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• You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Self, Female

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental training in childhood! I do not mean suffering of an imaginary kind; I mean disease which may entirely ruin a life which might have been of use to the world, and which surely would have been happier but for the lost health. Many a chronic invalid might have preserved his health had he been taught to use his brain properly when a child.

  Lyman Abbott

  Children, Mean, Appreciate

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• Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

  David Hume

  Real, Passion, Government

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'Of Civil Liberty'

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• In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Self, Ego, Would Be

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.147, John Wiley & Sons

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• Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Space, Feminist

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.95, Routledge

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• I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.

  Wayne White

  Artist, Thinking, Boss

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I like how time goes on set. It's almost like time on an airplane or something where people are together. It's a different, very trippy kind of time, I find, because you're together in imaginary time where you're out of time. You're called upon to be present and honor what can happen in the moment. And the whole day can go like that. The whole day can be a kind of meditation.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Airplane, People, Meditation

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.

  Robert Silverberg

  Long, Enemy, Waste

  Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean

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• I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist one. Unfortunately, from that it does not follow that there is such a solution. Many philosophers find this an unwelcome message, and as often happens in philosophy, they punish the messenger by ascribing to him an entirely imaginary but untenable position.

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.

  Vera Nazarian

  Character, Play, Long

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Evil, Choices, Desire

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.238

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• Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary.

  Louis C. K.

  Courses

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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 peace of heart.

  Thomas Merton

  Humility, Heart, Thinking

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  People, Grumbling, Comfort

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• Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

  Fanny Kemble

  Oneness, Heaven, Division

  Fanny Kemble (1882). “Records of Later Life”

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• Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

  Sam Harris

  Evil, Care, Choose Wisely

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• Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we stand dumbstruck by you as well--by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Reality, Attachment

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought.

  Katie Davis

  Dream, Attachment, Essence

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• Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Pain, Real, Cures

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• Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

  Francis Bacon

  Stars, Philosophy, Light

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.186

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• I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.

  Vivek Shraya

  Opportunity, Thinking, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood experience in a very real way. Their poverty meant that there was nothing else they could think about but what they would eat, how they would clothe themselves. There's just no room for other things in his family. It's difficult for others to imagine the position in which he found himself. There is no imaginary existence in their lives.

  Catherine Camus

  Real, Love Is, Men

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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