“I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.” KnowsRealDreamLawDesireMy OwnBrainEnvironmentProductsAppearanceReal LifePermanentAwakeDistinctionRecogniseActualityTransitory Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
“What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?” HandsDesireBrainGrowingTreeBenefitsFruitWorkersRecognitionEarnestMonumentUsefulnessBlooming Author:Washington Irving
“The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.” PeopleWarDesireBrainPracticeMagicRationalPrimitiveSophisticatedStemImperativesCoexistLove And War Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong