The sleep of reason produces monsters.
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.
Artists
Francisco Goya
Born in 1746 in Aragon, Goya evolved from court painter to fierce critic of war and irrationality. The Third of May 1808 and the Black Paintings mark him as a forerunner of modern art.
View this figure's profile
Francisco Goya's Other Quotes
Related Quotes
The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.
-- Chrysippus of Soli
The pleasant life is produced not by endless drinking and revelry but by sober reasoning.
-- Epicurus
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
-- Benedictus de Spinoza
Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world.
-- René Descartes
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
-- Immanuel Kant
Have the courage to use your own understanding!
-- Immanuel Kant