PhilosophyQuotes for March 2, 2000:

"it is absurd to combine the idea that the sender of...dreams should be God with the fact that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, but merely commonplace persons."

"At all events, even scientific physicians tell us that one should pay diligent attention to dreams, and to hold this view is reasonable also for those who are not practitioners, but speculative philosophers."

"On the whole...it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, however, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, though not itself divine."

- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), On Prophesying By Dreams

Aristotle's On Prophesying By Dreams is available in On Sleep & Dreams, available online at Amazon.com.