Quotation by

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Imagination

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Lichtenberg is saying that imagining something is like having a cheap copy or a small version of a real experience, which only those who can't have the actual thing enjoy. He suggests that imagination is a substitute for real pleasures, mostly used by people who lack the means to access the genuine article.

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