“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”
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Charles Baudelaire 133
French poet 1821–1867Related quotes
Preface to Second Edition (1843)
The Essence of Christianity (1841)
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II
Context: Yes, I dreamed a dream, my dream of the third of November. They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? If once one has recognized the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be, whether you are asleep or awake. Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!
Barack Obama
(1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Cape Town University Address (June 2013)
Vladimir Nabokov
(1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Speak, Memory: A Memoir (1951)
Context: The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
Yoko Ono
(1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000) by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, p. 16.
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
“Aeschylus had a clear eye for the commonest things. His genius was only an enlarged common sense.”
Henry David Thoreau
(1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
January 29, 1840
Journals (1838-1859)
Context: Aeschylus had a clear eye for the commonest things. His genius was only an enlarged common sense. He adverts with chaste severity to all natural facts. His sublimity is Greek sincerity and simpleness, naked wonder which mythology had not helped to explain... Whatever the common eye sees at all and expresses as best it may, he sees uncommonly and describes with rare completeness. The multitude that thronged the theatre could no doubt go along with him to the end... The social condition of genius is the same in all ages. Aeschylus was undoubtedly alone and without sympathy in his simple reverence for the mystery of the universe.