Reveries Quotes

27 quotes by 18 authors

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. — Luis Bunuel
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican… — Alexander Hamilton
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. — Charles Simmons
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from… — Gaston Bachelard
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been… — Baron d'Holbach
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. — Gaston Bachelard
Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming… — Gaston Bachelard
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the… — Gaston Bachelard
In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all… — Gaston Bachelard
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of… — Gaston Bachelard
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established… — Gaston Bachelard
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings… — Jim Woodring
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring… — Tom Hodgkinson
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in… — Herman Melville
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… — C.S. Lewis
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious — Emily Dickinson

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