Fred Wertheimer Quotes

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

Everything you can imagine is real.

This [political fundraising] is a very sophisticated system … This is a legalized bribery system where no one has to say anything. I don’t have to say what I want—you [the politician] know what I want.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

Congress has become the center of legalized bribery/

And when the guy [politician] says “Yes, I took money, but it didn’t influence my vote”? Oh, come on. The company that’s giving you the money thinks it is going to influence the vote. Why else would they give you the money?

I am willing to undergo the disadvantage in order to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics..

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.

Congressmen are not bribed anymore. They simply have a lot of friends who are willing to help them out whenever they find it necessary.