“people can die of mere imagination”
Source: The Canterbury Tales
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English poet 1343–1400Related quotes
“Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere.”
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Vol. VI, par. 286
Collected Papers (1931-1958)
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Alan Turing (1912–1954) British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
Variant: Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Valley of Fear
Source: The Valley of Fear
“Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.”
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) French painter and printmaker
“The Revolution is so that people can live, not so that they can die!”
Lu Xun (1881–1936) Chinese novelist and essayist
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“A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
