“There are more things, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIII: On Groundless Fears
Original: (la) Plura sunt, quae nos terrent quam quae premunt, et saepius opinione quam re laboramus.
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Seneca the Younger 225
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-sleepy-time-gal-2002 of The Sleepy Time Gal (22 November 2002)
Reviews, Three-and-a-half star reviews
"Advertisement for Myself on the Way Out"
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
[199806201726.KAA26569@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 - Dec/Jan 2004-2005 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
2000s, A Conversation with Alan Kay, 2004–05
Context: Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.
Interview by Yuichi Konno, Yaso magazine, Japan, 2003
“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.”
Source: Wyrd Sisters
“All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”
“Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.”
The Guardian, http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/karl-lagerfeld-launches-his-first-india-collection-with-an-alice-in-wonderland-style-tea-party.html 12 December 2011