Quotes about real
real character personality
It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. Gillian Flynn
real dark might
I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it. Gillian Flynn
real men giving
Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are. Gillian Flynn
real years ideas
I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest! Gillian Jacobs
real personality want
It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison. Gianfranco Zola
reality animal tree
When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals. Gerhard Richter
realized
He said everyone had a story ... and I realized it's not all about me.
real opposites natural
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks. Friedrich Nietzsche
reality self instinct
His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in. Friedrich Nietzsche
reality language distortion
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. Friedrich Nietzsche
real discovery people
Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it. Friedrich Nietzsche
real taken foxes
A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others. Friedrich Nietzsche
real equality opposites
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure. Friedrich Nietzsche
reality blood practice
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself. Friedrich Nietzsche
real struggle taken
From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism. Friedrich Nietzsche
real philosophy inspiration
[Philosophers] are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact. Friedrich Nietzsche
reality creation poet
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. Friedrich Nietzsche
real moving religion
Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none. Friedrich Nietzsche
real mind existence
The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but whether they have an absolute existence, distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds. George Berkeley
real thinking views
The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend. George Berkeley
real ignorant argument
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things. George Berkeley
reality mind bears
Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind? George Berkeley
real add misery
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good. George Bernard Shaw
real men religion
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. George Bernard Shaw
real self breathing
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. George Bernard Shaw
real noise sentimental
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise. George Bernard Shaw
real thinking people
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true. George Bernard Shaw
real mind danger
The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations. George Bernard Shaw
real thinking curiosity
You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity. George Bernard Shaw
real civilization recognition
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization. George Bernard Shaw
real drama men
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem. George Bernard Shaw
real people acting
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. George Bernard Shaw
real reading learning
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. George Bernard Shaw