Quotes
Quotes about Nation
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein.
The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a permanent ruin.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return,--Get very drunk; and when You wake with headache, you shall see what then.
