Voltaire Quotes About Imagination
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.
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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.
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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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