“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
“If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”
"Is Life Worth Living?"
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
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“You know what’s the real fight, the real money fight. It’s me”
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