Quotes About Authenticity

I had no idea why I was saying this. It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weaknesses.

because displaying real emotion would be gross.

She was exactly who she wanted to be.

if ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it's your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself—that will be the man who's not after your soul.

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a saint. You're a bitch.

It's as if they'd heard that there are values one is supposed to honor and this is what one does to honor them -- so they went through the motions, like ghosts pulled by some sort of distant echoes from a better age.

To say 'I love you' one must first know how to say the 'I.

No. I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

em không th? ch?p nh?n cái ná»­a v?i, cái g?n nhÆ°, cái g?n g?n, cái ? gi?a.

I don't like people who try to say only what they think I think.

Nobody stays in this valley except by a full, conscious choice based on a full, conscious knowledge of every fact involved in his decision. Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your house is in the house. The determining motive of the other is in the audience.

Tôi không thích nh?ng ng??i c? ch? nói nh?ng gì mà h? cho là tôi nghÄ©

It is here, it exists—but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest clarity of mind—not an innocent heart, but that which is much rarer: an intransigent mind—as one's only possession and key.

His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth.

they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.

If you want to defeat any kind of vicious fraud—comply with it literally, adding nothing of your own to disguise its nature.

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Don't you want to live?" "Passionately." He saw the snap of a spark in Mr. Thompson's eyes and smiled. "I'll tell you more, I know that I want to live much more intensely than you do. I know that that's what you're counting on. I know that you, in fact, do not want to live at all. I want it, and because I want it so much, I will accept no substitute.

A sentence in Atlas Shrugged that is applicable to all rational people, but particularly to writers, is the one where I say that Dagny "regarded language as a tool of honor, always to be used as if one were under oath—an oath of allegiance to reality." In regard to words, this should be the motto of every writer.

Yo he aprendido que una mentira constituye un acto de autoabdicación, porque al mentir rendimos la propia realidad a la persona a quien se miente, convirtiéndola en dueña de una. Y a partir de entonces nos condenamos a fingir la clase de realidad que aquella persona requiere para ser engañada.

I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.

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