J.W. Dunne Quotes & Sayings

I was suffering, seemingly, from some extraordinary fault in my relation to reality, something so uniquely wrong that it compelled me to perceive, at rare intervals, large blocks of otherwise perfectly normal personal experience displaced from their proper positions in Time. — J.W. Dunne

Where all is fog, a blind man with a stick is not entirely at a disadvantage. — J.W. Dunne

No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time. — J.W. Dunne

In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge of the past from our knowledge of the future. And the odd thing was that there did not seem to be any such barrier at all. — J.W. Dunne

If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe. — J.W. Dunne

I cared not a whit whether Time were "a form of thought," or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed? — J.W. Dunne