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Imagination
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Imagine. Create. Inspire.

Imagination is the uniquely human capacity to conjure novel realities, explore unseen possibilities, and create mental landscapes beyond the confines of direct experience. It's the engine of innovation, empathy, and artistic expression, allowing us to solve problems, connect with others, and infuse our lives with meaning and wonder by transforming the world, both within and without.

Imagination

# Imagination & Mental processes

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Context: • Storer, Peter the Cruel, p. 280, ascribes the origin of this phrase to the time of Don Enrique of Spain, on account of his favors being lavishly bestowed before they were earned. Mercure Français. (1616). Given as source by Littré
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). Lors feras chastiaus en Espaigne. Guillaume de Lorris—Roman de la Rose. 2452. Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France. Charles d'Orleans—Rondeau. Et le songer fait chasteaux en Asie. Pierre Grangoire—Menus Propos. Tout fin seullet les chasteaux d'Albanye. Le Verger d'Honneur.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Build castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 1. Subsect. 3. Also in Romaunt of the Rose. Come nous dicimus in nubibus. (As we said in the clouds.) John Rastell, Leg Termes de la Ley. (1527). * * * his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers. Letter by F. A. to L. B. 1575–76. Repr. in Miscell. Antiq. Anglic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“Build castles in the air.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 2, line 186.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“In my mind's eye, Horatio.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Thomas Watson, Poems. Arber's reprint, p. 82. See also Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act V, scene 3.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“I build nought els but castles in the ayre.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Storer, Peter the Cruel, p. 280, ascribes the origin of this phrase to the time of Don Enrique of Spain, on account of his favors being lavishly bestowed before they were earned. Mercure Français. (1616). Given as source by Littré
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). Lors feras chastiaus en Espaigne. Guillaume de Lorris—Roman de la Rose. 2452. Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France. Charles d'Orleans—Rondeau. Et le songer fait chasteaux en Asie. Pierre Grangoire—Menus Propos. Tout fin seullet les chasteaux d'Albanye. Le Verger d'Honneur.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Build castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 1. Subsect. 3. Also in Romaunt of the Rose. Come nous dicimus in nubibus. (As we said in the clouds.) John Rastell, Leg Termes de la Ley. (1527). * * * his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers. Letter by F. A. to L. B. 1575–76. Repr. in Miscell. Antiq. Anglic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“Build castles in the air.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 2, line 186.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“In my mind's eye, Horatio.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Thomas Watson, Poems. Arber's reprint, p. 82. See also Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act V, scene 3.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“I build nought els but castles in the ayre.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers], (1849) Wednesday (text at gutenberg.org).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (T)
“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Philip José Farmer, The Dark Design (1977), Chapter 67
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (F)
“Imagination was the great cozener of the past.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Another and a Better World.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“Imagination is the air of mind.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Mme. de Villars, when made dame d'honneur to the wife of Philip V, of Spain, grandson of Louis XIV. of France.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“It is only in France that one builds castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • He paints a dolphin in the woods, and a boar in the waves.
• Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), XXX.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Delphinum appingit sylvis, in fluctibus aprum.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Dreamfinder, Journey Into Imagination ride at Epcot, YouTube
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (D)
“It is your key to unlock the hidden wonders of our world.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • The human race is governed by its imagination.
• Napoleon I
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • George Santayana, Little Essays (1920, ed. Logan Pearsall Smith), 42: "Disinterested Interest in Life".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination (1872).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (E)
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Wallace Stevens, in "Adagia" in Opus Posthumous (1955)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“The imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater, Part II.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. Her Christening
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 4, line 137.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“This is the very coinage of your brain:
This bodiless creation ecstasy.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sprüche in Prosa, III.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Es ist nichts fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Topic

Imagination
Quotes

Imagine. Create. Inspire.

Imagination is the uniquely human capacity to conjure novel realities, explore unseen possibilities, and create mental landscapes beyond the confines of direct experience. It's the engine of innovation, empathy, and artistic expression, allowing us to solve problems, connect with others, and infuse our lives with meaning and wonder by transforming the world, both within and without.

Imagination

# Imagination & Mental processes

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Context: • Storer, Peter the Cruel, p. 280, ascribes the origin of this phrase to the time of Don Enrique of Spain, on account of his favors being lavishly bestowed before they were earned. Mercure Français. (1616). Given as source by Littré
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). Lors feras chastiaus en Espaigne. Guillaume de Lorris—Roman de la Rose. 2452. Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France. Charles d'Orleans—Rondeau. Et le songer fait chasteaux en Asie. Pierre Grangoire—Menus Propos. Tout fin seullet les chasteaux d'Albanye. Le Verger d'Honneur.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Build castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 1. Subsect. 3. Also in Romaunt of the Rose. Come nous dicimus in nubibus. (As we said in the clouds.) John Rastell, Leg Termes de la Ley. (1527). * * * his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers. Letter by F. A. to L. B. 1575–76. Repr. in Miscell. Antiq. Anglic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“Build castles in the air.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 2, line 186.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“In my mind's eye, Horatio.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Thomas Watson, Poems. Arber's reprint, p. 82. See also Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act V, scene 3.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“I build nought els but castles in the ayre.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Storer, Peter the Cruel, p. 280, ascribes the origin of this phrase to the time of Don Enrique of Spain, on account of his favors being lavishly bestowed before they were earned. Mercure Français. (1616). Given as source by Littré
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). Lors feras chastiaus en Espaigne. Guillaume de Lorris—Roman de la Rose. 2452. Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France. Charles d'Orleans—Rondeau. Et le songer fait chasteaux en Asie. Pierre Grangoire—Menus Propos. Tout fin seullet les chasteaux d'Albanye. Le Verger d'Honneur.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Build castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 1. Subsect. 3. Also in Romaunt of the Rose. Come nous dicimus in nubibus. (As we said in the clouds.) John Rastell, Leg Termes de la Ley. (1527). * * * his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers. Letter by F. A. to L. B. 1575–76. Repr. in Miscell. Antiq. Anglic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“Build castles in the air.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 2, line 186.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“In my mind's eye, Horatio.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Thomas Watson, Poems. Arber's reprint, p. 82. See also Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act V, scene 3.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“I build nought els but castles in the ayre.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers], (1849) Wednesday (text at gutenberg.org).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (T)
“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Philip José Farmer, The Dark Design (1977), Chapter 67
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (F)
“Imagination was the great cozener of the past.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Another and a Better World.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“Imagination is the air of mind.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Mme. de Villars, when made dame d'honneur to the wife of Philip V, of Spain, grandson of Louis XIV. of France.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“It is only in France that one builds castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • He paints a dolphin in the woods, and a boar in the waves.
• Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), XXX.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Delphinum appingit sylvis, in fluctibus aprum.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Dreamfinder, Journey Into Imagination ride at Epcot, YouTube
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (D)
“It is your key to unlock the hidden wonders of our world.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • The human race is governed by its imagination.
• Napoleon I
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • George Santayana, Little Essays (1920, ed. Logan Pearsall Smith), 42: "Disinterested Interest in Life".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination (1872).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (E)
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Wallace Stevens, in "Adagia" in Opus Posthumous (1955)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“The imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater, Part II.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. Her Christening
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 4, line 137.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“This is the very coinage of your brain:
This bodiless creation ecstasy.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sprüche in Prosa, III.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Es ist nichts fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Topic

Imagination
Quotes

Imagine. Create. Inspire.

Imagination is the uniquely human capacity to conjure novel realities, explore unseen possibilities, and create mental landscapes beyond the confines of direct experience. It's the engine of innovation, empathy, and artistic expression, allowing us to solve problems, connect with others, and infuse our lives with meaning and wonder by transforming the world, both within and without.

Imagination

# Imagination & Mental processes

U
Context: • Storer, Peter the Cruel, p. 280, ascribes the origin of this phrase to the time of Don Enrique of Spain, on account of his favors being lavishly bestowed before they were earned. Mercure Français. (1616). Given as source by Littré
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). Lors feras chastiaus en Espaigne. Guillaume de Lorris—Roman de la Rose. 2452. Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France. Charles d'Orleans—Rondeau. Et le songer fait chasteaux en Asie. Pierre Grangoire—Menus Propos. Tout fin seullet les chasteaux d'Albanye. Le Verger d'Honneur.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Build castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 1. Subsect. 3. Also in Romaunt of the Rose. Come nous dicimus in nubibus. (As we said in the clouds.) John Rastell, Leg Termes de la Ley. (1527). * * * his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers. Letter by F. A. to L. B. 1575–76. Repr. in Miscell. Antiq. Anglic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“Build castles in the air.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 2, line 186.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“In my mind's eye, Horatio.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Thomas Watson, Poems. Arber's reprint, p. 82. See also Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act V, scene 3.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“I build nought els but castles in the ayre.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Storer, Peter the Cruel, p. 280, ascribes the origin of this phrase to the time of Don Enrique of Spain, on account of his favors being lavishly bestowed before they were earned. Mercure Français. (1616). Given as source by Littré
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). Lors feras chastiaus en Espaigne. Guillaume de Lorris—Roman de la Rose. 2452. Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France. Charles d'Orleans—Rondeau. Et le songer fait chasteaux en Asie. Pierre Grangoire—Menus Propos. Tout fin seullet les chasteaux d'Albanye. Le Verger d'Honneur.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Build castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 1. Subsect. 3. Also in Romaunt of the Rose. Come nous dicimus in nubibus. (As we said in the clouds.) John Rastell, Leg Termes de la Ley. (1527). * * * his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers. Letter by F. A. to L. B. 1575–76. Repr. in Miscell. Antiq. Anglic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“Build castles in the air.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 2, line 186.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“In my mind's eye, Horatio.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Thomas Watson, Poems. Arber's reprint, p. 82. See also Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act V, scene 3.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“I build nought els but castles in the ayre.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers], (1849) Wednesday (text at gutenberg.org).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (T)
“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Philip José Farmer, The Dark Design (1977), Chapter 67
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (F)
“Imagination was the great cozener of the past.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Another and a Better World.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“Imagination is the air of mind.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Mme. de Villars, when made dame d'honneur to the wife of Philip V, of Spain, grandson of Louis XIV. of France.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“It is only in France that one builds castles in Spain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • He paints a dolphin in the woods, and a boar in the waves.
• Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), XXX.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Delphinum appingit sylvis, in fluctibus aprum.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Dreamfinder, Journey Into Imagination ride at Epcot, YouTube
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (D)
“It is your key to unlock the hidden wonders of our world.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • The human race is governed by its imagination.
• Napoleon I
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • George Santayana, Little Essays (1920, ed. Logan Pearsall Smith), 42: "Disinterested Interest in Life".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
U
Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination (1872).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (E)
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
— Unknown
Mental processes
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Context: • Wallace Stevens, in "Adagia" in Opus Posthumous (1955)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“The imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater, Part II.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. Her Christening
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 4, line 137.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (S)
“This is the very coinage of your brain:
This bodiless creation ecstasy.”
— Unknown
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Context: • There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sprüche in Prosa, III.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 386-87.)
“Es ist nichts fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Imagination" (B)
“IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.”
— Unknown
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