"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." — George Bernard Shaw

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Source: Walden (1854)

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new

Source: Walden (1854)

George Bernard Shaw Quote