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Quotes About Authenticity

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny
~ Sam Shepard
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
~ Thomas Merton
It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.
~ Martin Landau
Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.
~ Joe Rogan
That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is
~ Buck Brannaman
At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.
~ David Wilkerson
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.
~ Rembrandt
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
~ Plato
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
~ Brennan Manning
If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.
~ Horace Pippin
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
~ Klaus Kinski
Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
~ H. L. Mencken
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
~ Thomas a Kempis
If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good.
~ Richard J. Daley
I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.
~ Carl Jung
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
~ Charles M. Schwab
As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.
~ Suge Knight
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
~ Aimé Césaire
There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
~ John Steinbeck
I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.
~ Brian Johnson