“Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.”
“Your imagination must, to some extent, be found in a realm beyond reason because it begins with imagining a future reality: the self that you might become.”
“I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master . . . The quality that had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.”