Actual World Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. — Karl Marx
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. — Novalis
Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide. — Andrew Davidson
You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to… — George Harrison
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world. — Bertrand Russell
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most… — G. H. Hardy
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. — George Santayana
Talk of mysteries! â€” Think of our life in nature, â€” daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, â€” rocks, trees,… — Henry David Thoreau
The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you… — Deb Caletti
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of… — Tennessee Williams
In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the… — Philip K. Dick
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen… — Umberto Eco
It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into… — Francois Jacob
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they… — Alfred Korzybski
I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent… — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Actual World Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 20 Actual World Quotes as follows: