Famous quotes containing the words waking and/or revelation:
“They are not sleeping, but even if they were fast asleep, I’d respect their dreams more than your waking thoughts.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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