Quotes About Concealment

It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Never suppose that either the evil or the good that you do will remain secret, however strict may be your enclosure.

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.

I've had secrets come out of my typewriter in invisible ink.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

only inasmuch as the injury had been secret, she was doing herself justice as best she could.

Our Lord made me understand that the only true glory is that which lasts for ever; and that to attain it there is no necessity to do brilliant deeds, but rather to hide from the eyes of others, and even from oneself, so that "the left hand knows not what the right hand does."[1]

In order to erase his personal history the warrior must create around himself a fog in which nothing about him seems tangible. Only tangible people have personal history.

A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.

The speech of man is like embroidered tapestries, since like them this too has to be extended in order to display its patterns, but when it is rolled up it conceals and distorts them.

Our perspective of life has passed into an ideology which conceals the fact that there is life no longer.

There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.

Nature hides a man many things; but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what; man decides what to show the society how.

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.