Quotes About Authenticity

A great deal of the information embedded in a work of art is not – yet at least – accessible just by looking at an image of it while sitting at home. The deepest and richest experiences are not virtual but physical: they involve looking at real things and talking to real people.

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

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the more we realize we are one with God the more we become ourselves, just as we are, just as we were created to be.

for all the valuable insights big data provides, the Web remains a curated, idealized version of who we really are.

when I arrive at a new airport is handpick a taxi driven by a non-native. Foreign-born residents are likely to tell you the truth about a country and a population that natives can't or won't.

We are afraid, for example, of letting others know more about us than we know about ourselves, fearing most of all that our masks will slip, and will lose control, letting others see us as we truly are.

sponsors are letting us know that it's futile to hide, duck,

The houses and communities in North Carolina were more upmarket, carefully choreographed versions of the ones I had seen across the Russian Far East. How different, after all, is a look-alike house from a look-alike apartment building?

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

The fact that commercial culture always panders to the lowest common denominator of awareness and taste should not stop us in our personal revolution to become real human beings.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Viel Leisten - wenig hervortreten - mehr sein als scheinen." Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Generalfeldmarschall, (* 28. Februar 1833 in Berlin; † 4. Januar 1913 ebenda)

it is more properly understood as a masking of the self that is a constructed identity, a character. When the ego is too dominant, it prevents people from knowing their true identity and, as a result, interferes with an individual's ability to make informed and clear distinctions between authentic reality and contrived reality, and to act accordingly.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

Real life was not what everyone thought it was.

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Susie: Okay, Calvin. But you know what? You can't say, youcan'texpectanythingfrommeI'mbroken! And turn around the next minute and say, ohwoeismeeverybodytreatsmelikeI'mbroken! Which one is it? I can treat you the way I really feel, or I can treat you careful. Me: Real. Just be real.

I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true.

Remember I told you the truth so that the words and the real might be one again, giving you power. Remember me, and love me anyway.

I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all.

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