“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters”
Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
1790s
Variant: The sleep of reason produces monsters.
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
1790s
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Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
quoted by Albert Frederick Calvert, in Goya; an account of his life and works; publisher London J. Lane, 1908; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, pp. 355-377
Goya wrote this inscription upon a later copy of the etching-plate Capricho no. 43
1790s
“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), no. 3
Variant: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.
“We're sleeping underneath the bed to scare
The monsters out”
St. Vincent (musician) (1982) American singer-songwriter
"The Bed"
Actor (2009)
Context: We're sleeping underneath the bed to scare
The monsters out
With our dear daddy's Smith and Wesson. We've got to teach them all a lesson.
“Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.”
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) military and political leader
Tous les arts ont produit des merveilles: l'art de gouverner n'a produit que des monstres. <br class="br"> Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/discours/stjust_constitution_24_04_93.htm, speech to the National Convention (April 24, 1793).
“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
Patricia A. McKillip (1948) American fantasy writer
“It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.”
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher
Source: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“Why Opium produces sleep: … Because there is in it a dormitive power.”
Quare Opium facit dormire: … Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva.
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Le Malade Imaginaire (1673), Act III, sc. iii