Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended.
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
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.