Quotes About Authenticity

If I want my life to be a certain way, I must be that way myself.

everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are

I wasnt political in order to be political

Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.

The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

I'm the sort of man who's doomed to be a failure and I'll go to my grave without ever knowing whether I was real gold or just tinsel!

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter

Ama l'arte; fra tutte le menzogne è ancora quella che mente di meno.

You must write for yourself, above all.

Ah, ancora disse Rodolphe. Sempre i doveri; sono stufo di quelle parole. Eccoli lì: un mucchio di vecchi buoni a nulla, rinvoltati nella flanella, e di bigotte con lo scaldino e il rosario, che ci cantano eternamente nelle orecchie: Il dovere! Il dovere!. Eh, perbacco! Il dovere significa sentire ciò che è grande, amare ciò che è bello, e non accettare tutte le convenzioni della società con le ignominie che c'impone.

We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.

Atlar?n? çift sürmeye gönderecek yerde üzerlerine bindiÄŸinden , Elma ÅŸarab?n satacak yerde kendini içtiÄŸinden, Kümesinin en besili hayvanlar?n? yediÄŸinden, Av çizmelerini domuzlar?n?n içya??yla yaÄŸlad???ndan bütün ticareti olduÄŸu yerde b?rak?vermenin daha iyi olaca??n? anlamakta gecikmedi.

Los discursos exagerados solo sirven para encubrir afectos mediocres.

Zar se ne rugaju onima koji ljube, jer to ljudi smatraju kao sramotu; svatko, od stida ili od sebi?nosti, sakriva ono najbolje i najosjetljivije što ima u duši; da te cijene, moraš pokazivati samo svoje najružnije strane, samo tako možeš da budeš jednak svima drugima.

Every authentically loved being is a kind of god.

Tourism is the chance to go and see what has been made trite… the same modernization that has deprived travel of its temporal aspect has likewise deprived it of the reality of space.

Here, in order to remain human, men must remain the same.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle's estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual's gestures are no longer his own.

Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.

But you can't be saying I should walk away from everything I have worked for all my life? No, I am not. What I am saying is that we need to take a much closer look at what we have been calling our life. To what purpose? To see if it is really ours. Once we know what is authentically our own, then we also know what to keep and protect and what to let go.

To go beyond yourself, you must first be yourself.

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.