Quotes About Authenticity

Everything Real Is Self-Existent.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison uniform of the party to which we adhere. We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.

When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo

Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.

Ser você mesmo em um mundo que está constantemente tentando fazer de você outra coisa é a maior realização.

Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are.

Pomp and pretense have nothing to do with thought and knowledge. Gowns and diplomas cannot impart the least syllable of wisdom. Forget this, and our American universities will be impoverished even as they amass riches from their students and benefactors.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.

If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.

Dios no verá su trabajo hecho por cobardes. Un hombre está satisfecho y contento cuando ha puesto su corazón en su trabajo y ha hecho lo mejor que puede; pero cuando no actúe o hable en coherencia con esto, no tendrá paz.

Nada es tan sagrado como la integridad de tu propia mente. Absuélvete a ti mismo, y tendrás la aprobación del mundo.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fiber of the human heart.

I hate quotes: tell me what you know.

Cada hombre auténtico es una causa, un país, y una era.