#appearance

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#criticism #religion #truth #men

Schein ist das Wesen der Zeit – Schein unsre Politik, Schein unsre Sittlichkeit, Schein unsre Religion, Schein unsre Wissenschaft. Wer jetzt die Wahrheit sagt, der ist impertinent, »ungesittet«, wer »ungesittet«, unsittlich. Wahrheit ist unsrer Zeit Unsittlichkeit. ↗

— Ludwig Feuerbach

#essence #immorality #truth #religion

Why do people respect the package rather than the man? ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#truth #respect

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. ↗

— Aesop

#look #mind #outward #outward appearance #should

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

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beauty #believe #dare #dispose #easily

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze. ↗

— Adele

#always #appearance #been #booze #care

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance. ↗

— Kate Adie

#also #appearance #bbc #beirut #civil

Appearances are often deceiving. ↗

— Aesop

#deceiving #often

I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior , I just can not believe that other people don't care. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#appearance #believe #care #cares #concerned