Quote by Andre Breton

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer le

Summary

This quote suggests that individuals tend to place greater significance and credibility on events that happen while awake, compared to those experienced in dreams. The observer is intrigued by this tendency, highlighting the idea that human beings are primarily driven and influenced by their memories. It implies that memories shape our perception of reality and influence the value we assign to different experiences, perhaps indicating the vital role that memory plays in our lives.

By Andre Breton

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway,

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

Morning

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altrui

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Hospitals

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but n

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Life Politics Religion

MISS PRISMMemory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all c

MISS PRISMMemory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Memory

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Desiderius Erasmus

Insanity

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Work

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Work

Oh, order! Material order, intellectual order, moral order!

Oh, order! Material order, intellectual order, moral order! What a comfort and strength, and what an economy! To know where we are going and what we want; that is order. To keep ones word, to do the right thing, and at the right time: more order. To have everything under ones hand, to put ones whole army through its manoeuvres, to work with all ones resources: still order. To discipline ones habits and efforts and wishes, to organize ones life and distribute ones time, to measure ones duties and assert ones rights, to put ones capital and resources, ones talents and opportunities to profit: again and always order. Order is light, peace, inner freedom, self-determination: it is power. To conceive order, to return to order, to realize order in oneself, around oneself, by means of oneself, this is aesthetic and moral beauty, it is well-being, it is what ought to be.

Henri Frederic Amiel

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations,

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

Money

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

Time

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignor

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is

While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.

Freedom