George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Imagination
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
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