Margaret Fuller Quotes

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

It is not confused. We are.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.