Quotes About Authenticity

we are only what we always were

Because most people ain't people.

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals . . .

We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.

Arthur Miller

Authenticity soothes the soul.

It takes enormous courage and humility to be open to others to find out who we really are.

Authenticity reduces stress and produces faith in oneself and in the potential to grow and learn.

Genuine, authentic relating enlivens the spirit.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

No one reveals himself as he is; we all wear a mask and play a role. - On Psychology

Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding?

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

Do mesmo modo que o papel-moeda circula no lugar da prata, também no mundo, no lugar da estima verdadeira e da amizade autêntica, circulam as suas demonstrações exteriores e os seus gestos imitados do modo mais natural possível. Por outro lado, poder-se-ia perguntar se há pessoas que de facto merecem essa estima e essa amizade. Em todo o caso, dou mais valor aos abanos de cauda de um cão leal do que a cem daquelas demonstrações e gestos.

For as a rule a man must have worth in himself in order to recognise it and believe in it willingly and freely in others.

a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.

Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.

There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.

To imitate another man's style is like wearing a mask, which, be it never so fine, is not long in arousing disgust and abhorrence, because it is lifeless; so that even the ugliest living face is better.

Rien n'est beau gue le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable'' ''DoÄŸrudan baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey güzel deÄŸildir; sadece doÄŸru sevilmeye deÄŸerdir.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." ? Arthur Schopenhauer

Apenas os pensamentos próprios são verdadeiros e têm vida, pois somente eles são entendidos de modo autêntico e completo. Pensamentos alheios, lidos, são como as sobras da refeição de outra pessoa, ou como as roupas deixadas por um hóspede na casa.

Pseudo-philosophers, on the contrary, use speech, not indeed to conceal their thoughts, as M. de Talleyrand has it, but rather to conceal the absence of them

Truth that has been merely learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; at best, like a nose made out of another's flesh; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thinking of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us. This is the fundamental difference between the thinker and the mere man of learning.