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"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."
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"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
"The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem."
"I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't."
"Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible."
"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
"I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster. But I didn't want to think about that. I didn't want to wonder what would happen next."
"It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
"It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!"
Explore more quotes by William Godwin
"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children."
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."
"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
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