Quotes about Authenticity

Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: 'It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.

Once you label me you negate me.

I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense

Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back. False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.

Be content to seem what you really are.

When things lay claim to our trust—to lay them bare and see how pointless they are, to strip away the legend that encrusts them.

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.