Quotes About Authenticity

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer," Jobs told Fortune shortly after retaking the reins at Apple. "But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

La Bella Principessa: The Story of the New Masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. The artful minimalism of the speech gave it simplicity, purity, and charm.

to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out." He didn't seek any control over what I wrote, or even ask to read it in advance. His only involvement came when my publisher was choosing the cover

He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

When you have feelings," he said, "like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted." While

Nature is pleased with simplicity

when truth has fair play, it will always prevail over falsehood.

When it is founded on decision, love is no longer an unreliably moving passion, but the fulfillment to which alone real Being reveals itself.

The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life—that is the heart of existentialism.

We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.

Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.

His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.

He said that a men's work cloths are the only real cloths he has.

existentialist

When a woman forgets that she's supposed to be pretty and on display she looks like that murdered girl did, just somebody who's tired and needs to rest.

The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.

Be exposed. Be open. Be who you want to be. It will never hurt as much as starving your own humanity of oxygen.

The untreated cardboard sleeve around the venti-plus cup, stamped with biodegradable inks, proclaiming the coffee shop's proud independence, the simple black printing on the flecked card making its own statement about authenticity.

Whatever is manufactured outwardly by our own effort is not real and is doomed to frustration and defeat.