“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one… — Robert Brandom Copy Share Image
“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“Consider this an honest look at falling in love, loving yourself, and being loved in the social media age. It’s a guide… — Nev Schulman Copy Share Image
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The only times I get uncomfortable is when people are looking into my actual life, just because, like anybody, there's tons of… — Alex G Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary… — Maude Meagher 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative… — Garry Kasparov 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life. — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“ In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith. ” — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. This deeper discovery… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
“as I reflected upon the matter, I discovered that these authors, in their books, were, after all merely making use of their… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is gained by gathering data, whereas, Wisdom is earned by going through actual… — Master Jin Kwon Copy Share Image
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image