„I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.“
Commenting on her novel The Group. New York Herald Tribune (5 January 1964)
Mary McCarthy1
US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Frauenrechtlerin 1912 - 1989Ähnliche Zitate
— George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935
As quoted in Across My Path (1952) by Pelham Edgar, p. 148
— Simone Weil, buch Schwerkraft und Gnade
p. 120 http://books.google.it/books?id=lpuZIgerNroC&pg=PA120 (1997 edition)
Gravity and Grace (1947)
„The real world is much smaller than the imaginary“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
— Laura Penny Canadian journalist 1975
Quelle: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Seven, If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?, p. 212
— David Sedaris, buch Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
I'm guessing this comes from having watched too many Second World War movies.
Essay, "Easy, tiger". p.80
Quelle: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
„Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation.“
— Kim Stanley Robinson American science fiction writer 1952
Quelle: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 460)
„You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.“
— Arnold Lobel, buch Frog and Toad Together
Quelle: Frog and Toad Together
„(Sylvia) You almost never see a real lady popping out of a cake.“
— Nicole Hollander Cartoonist 1939
Quelle: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 30
„What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!“
— Rachel Caine American writer 1962
Quelle: Last Breath
„So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?“
— Stephen Hawking, buch Das Universum in der Nussschale
The Universe in a Nutshell (2001), p. 59
Kontext: One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?
„A real "wasteland" is much more terrible than any imaginary one.“
— Czeslaw Milosz, buch The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind (1953)
Kontext: Whoever saw, as many did, a whole city reduced to rubble — kilometers of streets on which there remained no trace of life, not even a cat, not even a homeless dog — emerged with a rather ironic attitude toward descriptions of the hell of the big city by contemporary poets, descriptions of the hell in their own souls. A real "wasteland" is much more terrible than any imaginary one. Whoever has not dwelt in the midst of horror and dread cannot know how strongly a witness and participant protests against himself, against his own neglect and egoism. Destruction and suffering are the school of social thought.
— Courtney Love American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist 1964
"Doll Parts"
Song lyrics, Live Through This (1994)
„… imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.“
— Brandon Sanderson, buch Warbreaker
Lightsong the Bold
Warbreaker (2009)
„He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Also sprach Zarathustra
Quelle: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
— Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980
Quelle: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writings/shockingly-simple-principles-of-spiritual-awakening/
— Mordechai Ben-Ari Israeli computer scientist 1948
Quelle: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 3, “Words Scientists Don’t Use: At Least Not the Way You Do” (p. 56)
