Quotes About Concealment

Every profound spirit needs a mask

Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it. Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up?

All my human relationships have to do with a mask of me, and I must perpetually be the victim of living a completely hidden life.

Honest things, like honest men, do not carry their reasons in their hands like that. It is indecent to show all five fingers. What must first be proved is worth little.

The seventh way to be noble: always being disguised, for the higher the type, the more a man requires an incognito. If God existed, he would be obliged to show himself to the world only as a man.

What a man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases—when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is finery; finery, too, is a hiding place.

Rather go out of the way! Flee into concealment! And have your masks and your ruses, that ye may be mistaken for what you are, or somewhat feared! And pray, don't forget the garden, the garden with golden trellis-work! And have people around you who are as a garden—or as music on the waters at eventide, when already the day becomes a memory. Choose the GOOD solitude, the free, wanton, lightsome solitude, which also gives you the right still to remain good in any sense whatsoever!

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Live in concealment in order that you may live to yourself. Live ignorant of that which seems to your age to be most important!

how well Stoicism hides what one does not possess!);

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.

La fatalidad nos hace invisibles

People have three lives: the public life, the private life and the secret life...

Silent, she thought that poverty was like a sickness you put to sleep inside you, and it didn't hurt too much as long as you didn't move. You grew used to it, you ended up not paying much attention to it as long as you stayed tucked away with it in the dark; but when you took the notion of going out with it in daylight, it became frightening to the sight, so ugly you could not expose it to the sun.

The sound of his voice was an overwhelming relief, like remembering the name of a beloved song or returning to a childhood haunt to find it totally unchanged. Did he not fee the same swell of relief? Or was he just better at hiding it?

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.