Anecdotes Quote by T. S. Eliot

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a…

— Hermann Hesse

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

— Edmund Burke

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

— Muhammad Iqbal

“The distinction between “real in nature” versus “illusory” is a false dichotomy. Fear and anger are real to a group of people who agree…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

— Tammy Duckworth

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally…

— John Ruskin

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

— Donald A. Wollheim

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

— Nick Hornby

The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity.…

— Anne Truitt

It's just so humanizing to see someone be real.

— Petra Collins

How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as it arrives…

— Claudia Rankine

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj