Victor Hugo Quotes About Imagination
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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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