Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image ““Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on.”” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Time and the universe lie around in our minds. We are sleeping histories of the world.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I guess a state of dreamless sleep is what the universe must be experiencing all the time. It exists, but it does not know.” — Rajesh Copy Share Image
“Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.” — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him off to sleep again.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yes, I have been forced to whittle down the facts, and to be a liar, but it is not one universe, but millions, almost… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Isn't it strange that all life can pretty much end, but the universe goes on as it is? No one else exists, but the… — Isabella Olivia Ellis Copy Share Image
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
