My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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"The Creatures on My Mind" in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996), p. 65Ursula K. Le Guin
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Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
Josh Billings
Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame. 82
Blaise Pascal
I’m not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
Robert A. Heinlein
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber
Everything made is made either by art or by a physical process or according to some power. Now in art or nature the maker must needs be prior to the made: but the maker, according to power, constitutes the made absolutely together with itself, since its power is inseparable from it; as the sun makes light, fire makes heat, snow makes cold.
Now if the Gods make the world by art, they do not make it be, they make it be such as it is. For all art makes the form of the object. What therefore makes it to be?Sallustius (or Sallust)
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