Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That’s where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
I’m not trying to sign people up to a creed, I’m much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn’t mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
Being busy does not always mean real work.
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.