Our Actual Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

[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
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
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
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
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
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred. — Bo Lozoff
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. — Sharon Salzberg
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
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
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in Ê¿religionÊ¾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better... — C.S. Lewis
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
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
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
[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
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
...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
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
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
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
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: