Quotes About Authenticity

The fake is a person who has rebuilt himself, with a view to occupying another social position than the one that would be natural to him.

Hence for a long time now it has been assumed that there can be no authentic creation in the sphere of high art which is not in some way a 'challenge' to the complacencies of our public culture. Art must give offence, stepping out of the future fully armed against the bourgeois taste for the conforming and the comfortable, which are simply other names for kitsch and cliché. But the result of this is that offence becomes a cliché.

In figurative painting, in tonal music, in the cliché-ridden poems of heroic love and mythic glory, we find the same disease – the artist is not exploring the human heart but creating a puffed-up substitute, and then putting it on sale.

realities instead.

Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that

How many people get their stories right from day to day?

We spend so much time lying to one another that I decided it would be amusing to say what I really felt. Just to see whether anyone noticed.

I don't like clever books; I like honest books.

And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else's. A little annoyance they acted out like a gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle would do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.

One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated. You must. We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. Why is it important? Mr. Valmik's eyes grew wide. You don't know? It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

mieux valent les leurres de la subjectivité que les impostures de l'objectivité.

Hamilton wanted logical proofs of religion, not revelation, and amply annotated his copy of A View of the Evidences of Christianity, by William Paley. "I have examined carefully the evidence of the Christian religion," he told one friend, "and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity, I should rather abruptly give my verdict in its favor."13 To

La realidad debe primar sobre las relaciones públicas, pues no se puede engañar a la naturaleza.   RICHARD P. FEYNMAN (1918-1988)

The church claims that the document is a forgery.

I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight.

I'm not much to talk about. What you see is what you get.

So like I said, what are you running from?" "From being like people, I guess.

He also said the day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.

On some deep level, we may choose to fill our days with busy work as a way to avoid the inevitable pain and disappointment in accepting that who we are may not be who we thought we were.

In the end, despite all your careful introspecting, you pay for following your instincts. And the more intensely and honestly you live, the more incessantly you pay. If you have become that particular, irreducible person, you get precisely what you want but no more. This is the unforgiving truth.

An authentic relationship means telling the truth about how we feel — and that's the kind of relationship God wants with us.

Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.