“In soft deluding lies let fools delight.
A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.”
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
"On a Sundial"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
“Those dreams that on the silent night intrude,
And with false flitting shapes our minds delude
… are mere productions of the brain.
And fools consult interpreters in vain.”
On Dreams (1727)
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And with false flitting shapes our minds delude
… are mere productions…" by Jonathan Swift?
Jonathan Swift141
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745Related quotes
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
From Miscellaneous Thoughts, lines 283-290 ; as contained in The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler: A Revised Edition with Memoir and Notes, Volume 2, Samuel Butler, G. Bell & Sons (1893), pp. 275-276
C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 14
Context: Every interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. An obscure dream, taken by itself, can rarely be interpreted with any certainty, so that I attach little importance to the interpretation of single dreams. With a series of dreams we can have more confidence in our interpretations, for the later dreams correct the mistakes we have made m handling those that went before. We are also better able, in a dream series, to recognize the important contents and basic themes.
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) La notte ci veste di magia, lasciandoci liberi di sognare, viaggiare, interpretare tutto con la profondità della propria anima. La forza del pensiero e di volontà, trasforma il desiderio in realtà.
Source: prevale.net
“I wouldn't dream of intruding into a reserved matter.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Principles and Priorities : Programme for Government (September 5, 2007)
Sigmund Freud book The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey. <br class="br">At any rate the interpretation of dreams is the via regia to a knowledge of the unconscious in the psychic life. <br class="br">Alternate translation by Abraham Arden Brill, p. 483 http://books.google.com/books?id=OSYJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA483#v=onepage&q&f=false. Freud did use the Latin phrase via regia in the original as opposed to translating it into the German of the surrounding text. <br class="br">"Royal road" or via regia is an allusion to a statement attributed to Euclid. <br class="br">1900s
“Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.”
Quintilian (35–96) ancient Roman rhetor
Perhaps confusion of Book VI, Chapter II, 30
Similar to Matthew Prior: "For hope is but the dream of those that wake", Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 102.
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