College Quote by James Merrill

These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor…

— Hildegard of Bingen

“It was warm and salty, chalky and bittersweet. It tasted like the blood of some old, old thing. I tried not to think about…

— Terence McKenna

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind…

— Socrates

I was afraid that by observingobjects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses Imight blind my soul…

— Socrates

Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of looking at…

— Phil Vischer

Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped…

— William Beebe

There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled in their…

— Sue Arnold

“They say that with the ancients dreaming was a perfectly ordinary, normal occurrence. But of course, their whole life was a dreadful whirling carousel—green,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive…

— Pablo Picasso

In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me.…

— Gao Xingjian

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible…

— Alfred de Musset