Quote by Marcel Proust, Within A Budding

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of onehttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300401.txt

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to ke

Summary

This quote emphasizes the importance of allowing the mind to freely dream and not restricting or limiting its capacity for imagination. It highlights the idea that by censoring or suppressing our dreams, we fail to understand the true essence of life as we become easily deceived by superficial appearances. Rather than considering a little bit of dreaming as potentially harmful, the quote suggests that the remedy lies not in reducing our dreams but in embracing them fully and continuously. By consistently engaging in the act of dreaming, we may gain deeper insights and a genuine understanding of reality.

Topics

Dreams

By Marcel Proust, Within A Budding

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Patience is the secret to good food.

Patience is the secret to good food.

Food

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to g

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Fighting Fight

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gav

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Alone

The firmest proof that Marxism is not science but an ideolog

The firmest proof that Marxism is not science but an ideology is Marxism's attitude to the experience of the real communist (or socialist) societies.

Aleksandr Zinovyev

Experience Science Proof

He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely sur

He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.

Fighting Fight

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to s

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale

Death

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would h

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.

God Philosophy

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Roberto Assagioli

Forgiveness

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Rejection

I didn't know anymore what love meant, or why we were not al

I didn't know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.

Patricia A. McKillip

Love

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of t

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents,

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Strength