Real Quotes - Page 33

Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

Reality is just a point of view.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.