Rene Descartes Quotes

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

No political cliche can stand up to reality.

Common sense is often common nonsense. There is much that we have learned from science that is counter-intuitive.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.