#reveal

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#better #defective #does #duty #follow

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. ↗

— John le Carre

#confidence #greatest #her #history #i

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#coherent #doubtless #enacted #end #eye

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#covered #habit #keeps #prevents #realism

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things. ↗

— John Corbett

#act #could #different #different things #i

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#against #crime #decided #done #i

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#always #before #down #explore #going

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#character #expose #eyes #i #i think

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#both #conditions #development #men #metropolis

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#basic #became #economics #foreign #gradually