Our Actual Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience...
— Erwin Schrodinger
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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
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I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and…
— Jack Kerouac
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If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that…
— Marshall Goldsmith
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Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem,…
— Namkhai Norbu
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The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
— Bo Lozoff
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When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
— Sharon Salzberg
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Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds…
— Steven Kotler
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It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own…
— Greg Ginn
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Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better...
— C.S. Lewis
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What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any…
— Richard P. Feynman
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It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art.…
— Jonah Lehrer
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The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.
— Lewis Mumford
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[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place…
— Marcel Proust
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...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the…
— Thomas Hardy
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of…
— Joan Didion
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How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which…
— Joan Didion
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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
— David Mitchell
Who Wrote These Our Actual Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Our Actual Quotes as follows: