The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
- Topic: Imagination, Perception
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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.
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
