Actual

Famous quotes containing the word actual:

“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

“A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)