As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they… — Thomas Betterton Copy Share Image
Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them. — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
