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Pliny the Elder, full name Casus Plinius Secundus NULL
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Pope Pius X, aka Saint Pope Pius X and Pope of the Eucharist, born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto NULL
But stranger still, alarming and saddening at the same time, are the audacity and frivolity of men who call themselves Catholics and dream of re-shaping society under such conditions, and of establishing on earth, over and beyond the pale of the Catholic Church, ‘the reign of love and justice’ ... What are they going to produce? ... A mere verbal and chimerical construction in which we shall see, glowing in a jumble, and in seductive confusion, the words Liberty, Justice, Fraternity, Love, Equality, and human exultation, all resting upon an ill-understood human dignity. It will be a tumultuous agitation, sterile for the end proposed, but which will benefit the less Utopian exploiters of the people. Yes, we can truly say that the Sillon, its eyes fixed on a chimera, brings Socialism in its train.
Audacity | Frivolity | Love | Men | Society | Will | Words | Society |
At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.
Barbara Ehrenreich, born Barbara Alexander
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
Little | Responsibility | Science | Will |
Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
R. H. Stoddard, fully Richard Henry Stoddard
There are gains for all our losses, there are balms for all our pains, but when youth the dream departs it takes some thing from our hearts and never comes again. We are stronger and are better under manhood’s sterner reign, still we feel that some thing sweet followed youth with flying feet and will never come again. Some thing beautiful has vanished and we sigh for it in vain. We behold it every where---- on the earth and in the air---- But it never comes again.
R. W. Sellars, fully Roy Wood Sellars
If religion is to survive, it must be human and social. It is they who insist upon a supernatural foundation and object who are its enemies. Man’s life is spiritual in its own right. So long as he shall dream of beauty and goodness and truth his life will not lack religion.
Beauty | Life | Life | Object | Religion | Truth | Will | Beauty |
There is a great difference between defending life and befriending it. Defending life is often about holding on to whatever you have at all cost. Befriending life may be about strengthening and supporting life's movement toward its own wholeness. It may require us to take great risks, to let go, over and over again, until we finally surrender to life's own dream of itself.
Dreams are private, she said. And she is right. A dream is a story that no one else will get to hear or read.
Ralph Ellison, fully Ralph Waldo Ellison
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?
Randy Pausch, fully Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch
I probably got more from that dream and not accomplishing it than I got from any of the ones that I did accomplish.
Ray Bradbury, fully Ray Douglas Bradbury
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. ...To hell with that!
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Raymond Chandler, fully Raymond Thornton Chandler
All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.
Men |
Ray Bradbury, fully Ray Douglas Bradbury
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Will |
René Margritte, fully René François Ghislain Magritte
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Be good, my child, and let who will be clever; Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long; and so make life, death, and that vast forever one grand, sweet song.