Quotes About Authenticity

Czasem bywa tak, ?e podziwiamy, boÅ›my przyzwyczaili siÄ™ podziwia?, a tak?e dlatego, ?e nie chcemy popsu? sobie parady. Bywa te?, ?e podziwiamy przez delikatno??, aby nie robi? przykroÅ›ci. Na wszelki wypadek doradzam: uderzmy w nich mocno aby zobaczy?, czy siÄ™ nie przewrócÄ….

Truth does not make itself real in an abstract contest of ideas, but in a collision of persons. Being condemned to read a fair amount of books filled only with arguments, I know what truth severed from the person is: a laborious truth. And that is why I turn to you with the plea: Do not allow an idea to grow in you at the price of your personality.

Niespiesznie stÄ…paÅ' i zatrzymywaÅ' siÄ™, oglÄ…daÅ' krzaki, zamyÅ›lony, jego mÄ…dry profil pochylaÅ' siÄ™ nad liÅ›ciami, abstrakcyjnie. Ogród byÅ' cichy. Znów podejrzenia moje rozwiewaÅ'y siÄ™, ale pozostaÅ'o jedno, trujÄ…ce: ?e on przed sobÄ… udaje. JakoÅ› zanadto siÄ™ ruszaÅ' w tym ogrodzie.

Truth will only make you unpopular.

unser Rilke-Herz - ehe der Clown kräht - haben wir es dreimal verleugnet.

His ways were a refuge from falsity.

Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.

In order to be a writer, Maugham continues: one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat….

A realidade é chata, mas ainda é o único lugar onde se pode comer um bom bife

It was the real world I was coming in contact with, and though it's real for everyone, it's more real for some than others.

Being who you are is a pure religious experience. If you can stay with that experience, just being a part of All-That-Is, that's enough. Instead, we go searching chasing after masters because most of us want more than just being ourselves.

If you pretend abundance when in fact you are in need, those who would aid you will not because they will either believe you to be abundant or recognize your pretense and consider you to be unworthy.

Hay un desprendimiento liberador en el acto de romper las hojas que uno ha escrito, acaso por haber notado en ellas la desnudez obscena de un par de sentimientos. Existe una soberbia mojigata remojada en pudores melancólicos detrás de la sospecha de que cuanto escribimos hace pocas semanas nos hace ver como unos cursis infumables: pornógrafos del sentimiento.

Amar es desnudarse de los nombres.

me quede pensando en lo lindo que habría sido todo si yo no fuera yo, ni a ti te diera tanto por ser como tú.

Dime cuantas mentiras cuentas y te diré que tan esclavo eres.

If you wish to be thought a good estate manager, or a good horseman, or a good physician, or a good flute player without really being one, just imagine all the tricks you have to invent just to keep up appearances. You might succeed at first, but in the end you're going to be exposed as an impostor.

the shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be: and if you observe, you will find that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. 

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

Don't worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

I concluded, that it was not a dream or a delusion or a misplaced memory or a fancy or any other falsity, but a solid, true thing witnessed while in a weakened highly agitated state.

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

What's so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn't any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?