“Imagination is what providence uses to take men captive in actuality, in existence, in order to get them far enough out, or within, or down into existence. And when imagination has helped them get as far out as they should be - then actuality genuinely begins.”

“The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.”

“Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.”

“Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.”

“Imagination is just what others use to get things they can't understand into their heads. Rarely – if ever – do they actually fit there.-Hermes”

“Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith. Faith that something should be in existence as far as lies in our power is changed into the intellectual belief that it is already in existence. When physical existence does not bear out the assertion, the physical is subtly changed into the metaphysical. In this way, moral faith has been inextricably tied up with intellectual beliefs about the supernatural.”