"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
― Edgar Allan Poe
Topic(s):
Imagination
― Edgar Allan Poe
More From Edgar Allan Poe
- "I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
- "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
- "The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."
More In Imagination
- "As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future."― Thomas Edward Brown
- "Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."― Henry David Thoreau
- "My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people."― Patricia Highsmith