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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.


George Santayana

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISON It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream.
JOSH RYAN EVANS Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No dreamer is ever to small; no dream is ever to big.
SOURCE UNKNOWN It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream.
JOSH RYAN EVANS I can prove anything by statistics except the truth
GEORGE CANNING I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
GEORGE CANNING I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding a...
NEIL GAIMAN No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not...
XENOPHANES If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around
LAINI TAYLOR Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
JIM VALVANO Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the...
BETTY FRIEDAN Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember ...
MICHAEL ENDE A dreamer will not stop having that dream until it has been fulfilled
J. WILSON I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be; the waves that plunged along ...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment...
OSCAR WILDE You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON Every dream is important to the dreamer. Many times only to the dreamer!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR The dream is the exclusive property of the dreamer.
J.J. BROWN A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t als...
ROMAN PAYNE No one can know everything about another person. Not even God, probably.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Be...
ROBERT K. GREENLEAF If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry...
EDWARD ALBEE I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
SARAH BRIGHTMAN Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
JIM VALVANO I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it b...
HENRY FORD We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
DALE CARNEGIE Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the perso...
MICHEL LEIRIS He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew unti...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn...
OSCAR WILDE The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the re...
WINNIE HOLZMAN Encourage the dreamer and he will dream the best.
JOEL LOCKTA You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the ...
SARAH LACY When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matte...
DAN BROWN An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A dream is only as powerful as the dreamer.
BIANCA FRAZIER No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follo...
JOHN STUART MILL Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about...
DAVID LEVITHAN If the mind is open and awake then.... do the gods partake to fill the spaces inbetween the dreamer ...
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SIRI HUSTVEDT We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can d...
DALE CARNEGIE No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM [Board chair George Russell expressed his skepticism about future funding from the state.] The big i...
GEORGE RUSSELL Everyone is a dreamer. It never means every dream that can come true. I always admire for the one wh...
KAZERONNIE MAK The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and im...
CARSON MCCULLERS No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and deares...
AGATHA CHRISTIE A girl can dream."
His eyebrows rose. "Is that what you dream about? Being a monster?"
"No...
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GERALD R. FORD A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at...
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VERA NAZARIAN mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.
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SUZY KASSEM No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...
SHIRLEY JACKSON Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI The great thing about George is that he can stand back and let his managers create.
GARY HOENIG The dreamers of today are the architects of tomorrow.
SARAH STAUNTON What the war did to dreamers.
ANTHONY DOERR How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by no...
TREVOR MCDONALD No one knows absolutely; knowledge is relative, except 'Truth'.
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H. P. LOVECRAFT You crazy dreamer you heavy sleeper, you sleepwalker a dream maker.
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ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS I know Roman's out, but at the same time, I'm not even worried about Mark. No disrespect to him. I'm...
EARL LITTLE No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some p...
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PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS Of course not, no. Less chance than John Kerry and George W. Bush dropping out.
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MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserv...
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't know Mr. Conti, I have not had the pleasure of hearing his voice, even by telephone.
GERARD MESTRALLET The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
CONOR MCGREGOR As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer
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BRUCE WILKINSON I send my love to Liam. We're not in a fight with everyone - except George Bush.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Consciousness is a born hermit.
GEORGE SANTAYANA My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it mus...
GEORGE SANTAYANA In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
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