#appearance

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#god #lies #nature #science #scientists

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment man ceases merely to live in and with reality and demands a knowledge of this reality, he moves into a new and fundamentally different relation to it. At first, to be sure, the question of truth seems to apply only to particular parts and not to the whole of reality. Within this whole different strata of validity begin to be marked off, reality seems to separate sharply from appearance. But it lies in the very nature of the problem of truth that once it arises it never comes to rest. The concept of truth conceals an immanent dialectic that drives it inexorably forward, forever extending its limits. ↗

— Ernst Cassirer

#knowledge #problem-of-truth #reality #reflection #trust

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#psychology #psychology

Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#day #dejan-stojanovic #disappear #disappearance #literature

Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#appearance #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #peace

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. ↗

— Jane Austen

#boast #carelessness #deceitful #humility #indirect

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

— Aristotle

#aim #appearance #inward #outward #outward appearance

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand. ↗

— Ulrich Walter

#appear #appearance #being #different #differently

Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often. ↗

— Andre Weil

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The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so. ↗

— Shelley Berman

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