“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
“What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
“Work in classrooms isn’t significant work; it fails to satisfy real needs pressing on the individual; it doesn’t answer real questions experience… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I maintain, then, that scientific psychology (and, it may be added, the psychology of the same kind that we all unconsciously practise… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The group of artists and scientists that had so far done least was the one that had attracted the greatest interest—and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I will be in the afterlife, which as we all know controls the actual life. I will haunt you for the rest… — Christopher Higgs Copy Share Image
At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
“We know how to dream beautifully! And in our dreams we are always extraordinarily active! We cross oceans, found colonies, introduce ideal… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true… — William James Copy Share Image
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
