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~ The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves. ~

Emile Durkheim

~ The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. ~

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

~ The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ~

Michael Korda

~ They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. ~

Jerome K. Jerome

~ Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ~

Wayne Dyer

~ With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity. ~

Dorothee Sˆlle

~ Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues ~

Henry Fielding

~ Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, scarcely one meets with less success than affectation, which is a perpetual disguise of the real character by false appearances ~

Johnson

~ In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. ~

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

~ My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star. ~

Estelle Winwood

~ Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance ~

Bible

~ A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. ~

Thomas Paine

~ To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders…It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. ~

Albert Einstein

~ The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. ~

Cesare Lombroso

~ Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. ~

Duane Michals

~ A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ~

Aristotle

~ Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it. ~

William Hazlitt

~ I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy. ~

Montaigne

~ Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. ~

John Cage

~ As you get older, it`s nice to be able to relax a bit about your appearance. Writing does that for me. It comes from inside me, from my brain and from my heart, and hopefully it has much more value than anything that`s on the exterior. ~

Emma Samms

~ It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works. ~

Clement of Alexandria

~ The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~

Aristotle

~ Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power\'s disappearance. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ Appearances are often deceiving. ~

Aesop

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

Alice Walker

~ Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden... ~

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