Amazement Quote by Rene Descartes

Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that…

— Thomas Hobbes

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal…

— Siri Hustvedt

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I…

— Bertrand Russell

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

— Ruth Rendell

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there…

— Stephen King

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

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as…

— Annie Besant

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

— Rene Descartes

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of…

— Richard Dawkins

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I…

— Christopher Nolan