Quotes About Authenticity

Man must be invented each day

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.

The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men."

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity