"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." ― C. S. Lewis Topic(s): Imagination More From C. S. Lewis "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." More In Imagination "Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible."― Ida Tarbell "I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can."― Franz Schubert "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."― William Blake