Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Man lives by imagination.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

I have a very vivid imagination.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Imagination is a form of seeing