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  • In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.

    Life   Hate   Men  
    Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.47, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

    Men   Tragedy   Comedy  
    Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.456, Simon and Schuster
  • From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

    Judging   Serious   Study  
  • My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

    Faith   Ambition   Views  
    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin
  • 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 in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

    Country   Views   Long  
    Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.423, Vintage
  • Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

    Dog   Strong   Feet  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.152, GENERAL PRESS
  • I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3488, Simon and Schuster
  • One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

    Life   Doctors   Knowing  
  • Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.

    Reality   Legends   Facts  
    Lesley Hazleton (2013). “The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad”, p.14, Penguin
  • My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

    Real   Thinking   Diaries  
    ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”
  • I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

    Home   Careers   Way  
    "Debbie Gibson: Out of the Blue and on Celebrity Apprentice". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.
  • A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

    Book   Reading   Men  
  • You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

  • Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

    William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.77, Courier Corporation
  • Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

    Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press
  • 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 got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

    Dream   Wisdom   Morning  
    Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.289, Penguin UK
  • Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

    Poetry   Religion   May  
  • We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

    Winning   Men   Effort  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1920). “Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”
  • Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.

    Wall   Real   Cities  
  • I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

    Friendly   Made   Shows  
  • The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.77, Publishdrive
  • dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.

    Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”
  • If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that has not been fully revealed. We see that in actual life He does not treat all alike. For wise reasons known only to Himself He has given to some blessings to which they had no claim…and has withheld from others gifts which He was under no obligation to bestow.

    Wise   Blessing   People  
  • I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

    Thinking   Wind   People  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

    People   Giving   Actors  
    Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.
  • We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

    Interview with Dave Eggers, www.believermag.com. November 2003.
  • In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

  • All actual life is encounter.

    Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.82, eBookIt.com
  • That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

    Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”
  • The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

    Wisdom   Nature   Book  
    Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.258, Cambridge University Press
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