Quotes about real
A collection of quotes on the topic of real, doing, people, use.
Quotes about real
“Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
“In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.”
Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter
“The real you comes out when no one is watching”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) Italian-American middle distance runner
Variant: I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's healing, actually, it's real healing...
Forgiveness.
“But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
Teacher
Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
As quoted in Encounter with Martin Buber (1972) by Aubrey Hodes, p. 135
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) Iranian mathematician
Interview with Research Fellow Maryam Mirzakhani | january 2008
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member
As quoted in O<sub>2</sub> : Breathing New Life Into Faith (2008) by Richard Dahlstrom, Ch. 4 : Artisans of Hope: Stepping into God's Kingdom Story, p. 63; this source is disputed as it does not cite an original document for the quote. It is also used in <i> The White Rose </i> (1991) by Lillian Garrett-Groag, a monologue during Sophie's interrogation.
Disputed
Context: The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves — or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Response to Harold Bell, question about his view on friendship in an Interview (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSFYdFaS3E.
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS officer
Letter to Willis Everett, July 14, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 32.
Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido
Speaking of a vision of the "Great Spirit of Peace" in 1942, during World War II, as quoted in Adjusting Though Reflex : Romancing Zen (2010) by Rodger Hyodo, p. 76
Context: The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter — it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
As quoted in Melody Maker (1991-09-14).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”
Todd Strasser (1950) American author of young-adult and middle grade novels
“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”
Murasaki Shikibu book The Tale of Genji
Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 1: Kiritsubo
“The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.”
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky book Isis Unveiled
Eliphas Levi
Source: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XIII
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
29a–b
Alternate translation: "To fear death, is nothing else but to believe ourselves to be wise, when we are not; and to fancy that we know what we do not know. In effect, no body knows death; no body can tell, but it may be the greatest benefit of mankind; and yet men are afraid of it, as if they knew certainly that it were the greatest of evils."
Plato, Apology
Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) American actor and film producer
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
Idi Amin (1925–2003) third president of Uganda
Quoted in The Evil 100 (2004) by Martin Gilman Wolcott, p. 78.
Attributed
Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States
Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
Amicitia quae desinere potest vera numquam fuit.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 3
Letters
“This is a great mistake.
We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Anarchism or Socialism (1906)
Context: We are not the kind of people who, when the word "anarchism" is mentioned, turn away contemptuously and say with a supercilious wave of the hand: "Why waste time on that, it's not worth talking about!" We think that such cheap "criticism" is undignified and useless.
Nor are we the kind of people who console themselves with the thought that the Anarchists "have no masses behind them and, therefore, are not so dangerous." It is not who has a larger or smaller "mass" following today, but the essence of the doctrine that matters. If the "doctrine" of the Anarchists expresses the truth, then it goes without saying that it will certainly hew a path for itself and will rally the masses around itself. If, however, it is unsound and built up on a false foundation, it will not last long and will remain suspended in mid-air. But the unsoundness of anarchism must be proved.
Some people believe that Marxism and anarchism are based on the same principles and that the disagreements between them concern only tactics, so that, in the opinion of these people, no distinction whatsoever can be drawn between these two trends.
This is a great mistake.
We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism. Accordingly, we also hold that a real struggle must be waged against real enemies.
Christopher Paolini book Eragon
Variant: Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
Source: Eragon
Martin Buber book I and Thou
Variant translationː All actual life is encounter.
Variant: All real life is meeting.
Source: I and Thou (1923)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: The Mark of a Man
“The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
Terry Pratchett book Hogfather
Source: Hogfather
“It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.”
Nina Simone (1933–2003) American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist
Source: I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
“The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Source: The Wisdom of the Heart (1941), p. 46
“In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer…”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
“Every real story is a never ending story.”
Michael Ende book The Neverending Story
Source: The Neverending Story
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
Press Conference, September 1 1992 http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/92fs$$.htm <br class="br">1990s
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 6: 1923
“I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil.”
Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer
As quoted in Paris, Paris : Journey Into the City of Light (2005) by David Downie, p. 93
Witold Pilecki (1901–1948) World War II concentration camp leader and resistor
Source: Lawrence W. Reed, Witold Pilecki: Bravery Beyond Measure, 23 October 2015 https://fee.org/articles/he-volunteered-to-go-to-auschwitz/
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Matthew McConaughey (1969) American actor
" Exclusive interview with Matthew Mcconaughey http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/7774937/exclusive-interview-with-matthew-mcconaughey?page=all" on hollywood.com, March 18, 2011: On playing Mick Haller in the The Lincoln Lawyer
“In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.”
Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido
As quoted in Total Aikido (1997) by Gōzō Shioda, p. 24
Karl Marx book The German Ideology
The German Ideology (1845/46)
Context: The fact is, therefore, that definite individuals who are productively active in a definite way enter into these definite social and political relations. Empirical observation must in each separate instance bring out empirically, and without any mystification and speculation, the connection of the social and political structure with production. The social structure and the state are continually evolving out of the life-process of definite individuals, but of individuals, not as they appear in their own or other people's imagination, but as they really are; i. e. as they are effective, produce materially, and are active under definite material limits, presuppositions and conditions independent of their will.
The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life. Conceiving, thinking, the mental intercourse of men, appear at this stage as the direct efflux of their material behaviour. The same applies to mental production as expressed in the language of the politics, laws, morality, religion, metaphysics of a people. Men are the producers of their conception, ideas, etc. — real, active men, as they are conditioned by a definite development of their productive forces and of the intercourse corresponding to these, up to its furthest forms. Consciousness can never be anything else than conscious existence, and the existence of men is their actual life-process. If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical life-process.


