“Preachers have created for us patterns of behavior unattainable for humans, they then left us chasing them as if we were chasing a dream”
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Iraqi sociologist 1913–1995Related quotes
“No dream is ever chased alone.”
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“Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams comes true.”
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“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”
Source: Lair of Dreams
Source: The Great God Pan (1894), Ch. I : The Experiment
Context: You see the mountain, and hill following after hill, as wave on wave, you see the woods and orchard, the fields of ripe corn, and the meadows reaching to the reed-beds by the river. You see me standing here beside you, and hear my voice; but I tell you that all these things — yes, from that star that has just shone out in the sky to the solid ground beneath our feet — I say that all these are but dreams and shadows; the shadows that hide the real world from our eyes. There is a real world, but it is beyond this glamour and this vision, beyond these 'chases in Arras, dreams in a career,' beyond them all as beyond a veil. I do not know whether any human being has ever lifted that veil; but I do know, Clarke, that you and I shall see it lifted this very night from before another's eyes. You may think this all strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan.