Blaise Pascal Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

  Blaise Pascal

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.96

• If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.

  Blaise Pascal

  Dream, Kings, Believe

• We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Dream, Hope, Painful

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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