T Quotes
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“The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”
“The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.”
“The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.”
“The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.”
“The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.”
Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays
“The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.”
“The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.”
“The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.”
“The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.”
Source: The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters
“The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.”
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.”
“The real horror of my life is not that I’ve killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I’ve loved didn’t love me back.”
Source: Hidden Bodies
“The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.”
“The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them.”
Source: Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”
Source: On Writing
“The real improvements then must come, to a considerable extent, from the local communities themselves. We need local revision of our methods of land use and production. We need to study and work together to reduce scale, reduce overhead, reduce industrial dependencies; we need to market and process local products locally; we need to bring local economies into harmony with local ecosystems so that we can live and work with pleasure in the same places indefinitely; we need to substitute ourselves, our neighborhoods, our local resources, for expensive imported goods and services; we need to increase cooperation among all local economic entities: households, farms, factories, banks, consumers, and suppliers. If. we are serious about reducing government and the burdens of government, then we need to do so by returning economic self-determination to the people. And we must not do this by inviting destructive industries to provide "jobs" to the community; we must do it by fostering economic democracy. For example, as much as possible the food that is consumed locally ought to be locally produced on small farms, and then processed in small, non- polluting plants that are locally owned. We must do everything possible to provide to ordinary citizens the opportunity to own a small, usable share of the country. In that way, we will put local capital to work locally, not to exploit and destroy the land but to use it well. This is not work just for the privileged, the well-positioned, the wealthy, and the powerful. It is work for everybody. I acknowledge that to advocate such reforms is to advocate a kind of secession-not a secession of armed violence but a quiet secession by which people find the practical means and the strength of spirit to remove themselves from an economy that is exploiting and destroying their homeland. The great, greedy, indifferent national and international economy is killing rural America, just as it is killing America's cities--it is killing our country. Experience has shown that there is no use in appealing to this economy for mercy toward the earth or toward any human community. All true patriots must find ways of opposing it. --1991”
Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
“The real in me longs for peace.
The unreal in me longs for power.”
“The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.”
Source: Sand and Foam
“The real independence for any nation is when its women no longer need men to empower them.”
“The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.”
“The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty, which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism, as saving them trouble & expense.
—Aleister Crowley. 1929-03-09 diary entry.”
Source: Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley
“The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.”
“The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.”
“The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.”
“The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of working through mercenaries and client groups. And that fact simply does not exist in official American history. There is no such event in American history as the attack on South Vietnam. That's gone. Of course, It is a part of real history. But it's not a part of official history.”
“The real investment in life is not so much in the house you have, or the car. Your real investment is what you carry in the heart, and if you carry that passion for anything that you do, then nothing can really stop you. You enjoy the greater moments of everything.”
“The real invisibles of this world are not the fabricated beings of the human mind like angels and demons, but the homeless of the dirty streets!”
“The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years - is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that infinity drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting.”
“The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it's already there. You can see it with your own eyes.”
“The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.”
“The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.”
“the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...”
Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“The real is empty and the empty real”
“The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“The real is only one realization of the possible.”
“The real is the rational and the rational is the real.”
“The real is visible to the beautiful.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
“The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.”
Source: One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country
“The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.”
“The real issue? He didn't wanna be the black guy accused of "playing the race card" at a state tournament.”
Source: Dear Martin
“The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.”
Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.”
“The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.”
“The real issue is not if a crossing is put in, but when. It would be negligent on the part of Union Pacific and the California Public Utilities Commission to not address the problem.”
“The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.”