Quotes About Authenticity

Ni miento ni me arrepiento

el que se gana la credibilidad ahorra palabras.     Excelencia

Le mélange du vrai et du faux est énormément plus toxique que le faux pur. PAUL VALÉRY

La verdad no se dice ¡Se hace! Lo único que se dice es la mentira.

Y porque se comenzaba a aburrir de comprobar que esas elegancias no eran más que subterfugios, Jerónimo regresó a su tierra americana, burda y primitiva, en busca de obligaciones que dieran nobleza a su libertad. ¿Pero cómo tomar la resolución de incorporarse a un mundo cuyas verdades más altas son decretadas por un guiso de congrio en escabeche?

Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the measure of a man's love lies in how stupid he has become or is willing to be.

El caso es que la realidad, como el paisaje, tiene infinitas perspectivas, todas ellas igualmente ciertas y auténticas. La única perspectiva falsa es la que afirma ser la única.

Muchos nacen; pocos viven. Los hombres sin personalidad son innumerables y vegetan moldeados por el medio, como cera fundida en el cuño social.

Cuántos hay que parecen hombres y sólo valen por las posiciones alcanzadas en las piaras mediocráticas! Vistos de cerca, examinadas sus obras, son menos que nada, valores negativos. Sombras.

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.

Because one does not write poetry in order to flatter and to lie. Well, they've called me a poet, but they'll never call me a fool.

My... I'm not going to read that because it's only a lie

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

The restoration of man's inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one's realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.