Famous quotes containing the words awakened and/or mind:
“The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief we are inclined to, and there are certain flatteries to the vanity of man which we all believe by nature, until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914)
“So I wasnt dreaming, after all, she said to herself, unlessunless were all part of the same dream. Only I do hope its my dream, and not the Red Kings! I dont like belonging to another persons dream, she went on in a rather complaining tone: Ive a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)