“We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power which projects upon things the light of certainty; on the contrary we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.” MomentsDreamRealityLightNextForgetAnimalVisionMagicBearsProjectsContraryCertaintyFormerReasoningFadesOur DreamsOblivionDeprivedProjectionSlidesFadingDubiousLanterns Book:Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove
“I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.” ThinkingDreamHandsAbleOrderShareLettersCourtContraryReach OutPipeMazesFilingFerretsHamptonsPipe Dreams Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.” WorldDreamThis WorldResourcesContraryTrue LifePreludeProbation Author:Janet Erskine Stuart