Actuality Quotes
91 quotes by 86 authors
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The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or…
— Carl Jung
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Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already…
— Saul Bellow
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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does…
— Robert Musil
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What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share…
— Thomas Merton
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Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.…
— Ellen Lupton
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God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it.…
— Thomas Merton
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The physical organism itself then, even as you know it, exists and moves and reacts and influences, and is influenced by, many fields or planes…
— Jane Roberts
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The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists,…
— Odell Shepard
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The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
— David Bentley Hart
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Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control,…
— Jennifer O'Neill
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
— Arthur Eddington
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The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The actuality of thought is life.
— Aristotle
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and…
— Max Dupain
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Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. Violence…
— Jack Donovan
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We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions,…
— Willard Gaylin
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Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping…
— George Kubler
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