authenticity Quotes

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.