Actuality Quotes

• A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Art, Long

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• The actuality of thought is life.

  Aristotle

  Life

  Aristotle (2016). “Metaphysics”, p.305, Aristotle

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• Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.

  Cheris Kramarae

  Facts, Agree, Treated

  Cheris Kramarae (1992). “Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary”, Pandora Press

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• He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Winning, Venture, Prize

  Friedrich Schiller, Walter Hinderer, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1993). “Essays”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Art, Art Of Living, Conditions

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• Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

  Julius Caesar

  Moving On, Death, Wisdom

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• I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

  Aziz Ansari

  Time, Reading, Book

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• It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Long, Appearance

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.238, Penguin

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• There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Differences, People, Rhetoric

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• in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination, Consciousness, Extraordinary

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.411, Univ of California Press

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• All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Commitment, Expression

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• Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Powerful, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.51, Friederich Nietzsche

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• We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind.
  Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness,
  where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience,
  all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.

  Longchenpa

  Lying, Ambition, Reality

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• We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes not so much a single effort to render this transition understandable

  Herman Bavinck

  Fall, Light, Effort

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• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Reality, Brain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.49, Google Publishing

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• The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fashion, Feet, Clothes

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• There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

  Gary Crowley

  Life, Stories, Matter

  Gary Crowley (2009). “Pass the Jelly: Tales of Ordinary Enlightenment : a Memoir”, p.37, Sentient Publications

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• How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Choices, Rules And Regulations, World

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• People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Light, People, Finite

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1904). “The Logic of Hegel”

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• So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.

  Angela Carter

  Unseen, Faces, Facts

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Reality, Two

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• Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topography, Alternatives, World

  "Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is" by Jerry Saltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2011.

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• We all have those times in relationships, whether it's work or personal or family or whatever it is, where there's something that's eating at you and eating at you, and you want to say it to the person that you care about the most, but you're so afraid it's going to destroy everything. Like the fear of destruction keeps one from saying what they want to say - when, in actuality, by not saying it, things get worse. Because it's the entropy, the leak that doesn't get fixed.

  Bob Mould

  Want, Care, Eating

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• Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

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• Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.

  Lionel Trilling

  Strong, Emotional, Ideas

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.286, New York Review of Books

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