Top 160 Actuality Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.
People think, 'If I could only get motivated, then I'll act.' Nope. In actuality, it's the opposite.
Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.
In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
The actuality of thought is life.
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.
It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
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
The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.
Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.
In hip hop, 'real' has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a time, if a rapper spoke about being gangsta, they needed to truly be that, or they were 'frontin.'
We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.
Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.
So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.
It's hard to point to any single inspiration for 'iZombie' since, in actuality, it's made up from elements inspired by all kinds of different thing all mashed up together.
I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
The invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts.
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.
My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality.
I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.
This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.
You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.
If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.
Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer
There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.
What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.
