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“Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes adjust to the needs of men by transforming and masking themselves. Because of that it is not fundamental. That is about what endures, what is unique, what is in the stream of illusions - what is eliminated from the workings of the shadows.”

Men Way Needs Matter Form Mass Unique Illusion Shadow Fundamentals Endure Appearance Streams Transforming Subordinates

Book:On My Painting - Max Beckmann

Source: On My Painting - Max Beckmann

“The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.”

Ifs Should Looks Strong Simple Walks Design Evidence Argument Obvious Appearance Contrary Ducks Compelling Absent Overlooked Warrants Quacks Design In Nature

Author:Michael Behe

“All hoods make not monks.”

Appearance Monk Hood

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus

“Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.”

Firsts Might Christian Church Forever Stage Tears Appearance Repentance Adultery Assembly Unqualified

Author:Joseph Addison

“When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.”

Years Together Six Hundred Years Ago Died Appearance Yesterday Tombs Great Day

Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.”

Men Whole Passion Community Virtue Consequence Philosophical Safety Appearance Stupidity Arise Affected Zeal Good Sense Indolence

Book:The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30

Source: The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30

“Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.”

Writing Has Beens Teach Appearance Justify Righteousness Good Work Deceived Outward Appearance

Book:Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings

Source: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings

“The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.”

Knows Men Doe Facts Lying He Man Appearance Insight Surface Vulgar Gross Herds

Book:The Big Bow Mystery

Source: The Big Bow Mystery

“A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.”

Men Moments Artist Certain Effort Objects Appearance

Author:Edgar Degas

“Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.”

Self Games Individual Common Existence Appearance Superiors Submission Rite Regularity Schemas

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.”

Has Beens Reality Changed Appearance Painter Explanation Rooted Portraits Physicist

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.”

Has Beens Reality Found Results Behinds Fields Theory Negative Criticism Appearance Conception Exhausted Speculation Scepticism Positive Results

Book:Synthetic Philosophy ...: First principles. 1920. [v.2-3] The principles of biology. v.1, rev. & enl. ed., 1921

Source: Synthetic Philosophy ...: First principles. 1920. [v.2-3] The principles of biology. v.1, rev. & enl. ed., 1921

“Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the 'elements' as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all 'bodies' are only mental symbols for element-complexes (sensation-complexes).”

Doe Body Reality Produce Elements Complexes Appearance Symbols Permanent Sensations Realising Physicist Transient

Author:Ernst Mach

“I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.”

Firsts Art Artist Art Is Appearance Convinced Great Art Great Artist Moralist

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.”

“Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.”

Ifs Threat Appearance Hearing Insult Prudence Prudent

Author:George Sand

“There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality. In fact, both are always present, but in individual cases the one or the other may be more pronounced.”

Source: Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958

“Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.”

Sex Appearance Shattering

Book:Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.”

Art Individual Bears Shapes Appearance Invention Objectives Witness Variety Dimensions Interpretation Outlook Exploits Validity

Book:Visual Thinking

Source: Visual Thinking

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

“To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.”

Ifs Love Feels Matter Lying Fall Expression Silent Leaving Appearance Impression Curious Fallen Melancholy Vulgar Solemn Messy Being Loved Cathedrals Complacent Uneasiness

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.”

Reality Past Culture Relation Appearance Behave Realms Opposition Daily Life Refusal Resignation Adornment

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.”

Way Different Whole Body Faces Common Quality Subjects Color Eternal Constitution Property Appearance Substance Permanent Different Ways Visible Decay Diverse Mobile Formation

Author:Giordano Bruno

“Whenever I'm hired to do appearances I always get to take one or two friends with me. I'm away so much I'd get lonely if I didn't. My BBF would get to go jet-setting with me to amazing parties too, like the ones on P Diddy's yacht. Apart from me, he throws the best parties they're so A-list.”

Ifs Two Party Lonely Appearance Lists Setting Settings Jet Yacht Two Friends Best Party

Author:Paris Hilton

“True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!”

Knows Has Beens Reality Choices Liberty Know How Illusion Individuality Appearance Technique Mathematical Integrated

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.”

Knows Years Looks Littles Artist Hours Produce Appearance Favors Neglected

Author:Vanna Bonta

“The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.”

Ifs States Class Air Appearance Labour Paradox Nevertheless Commodity Propositions Paradoxical

Book:Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application

Source: Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application

“The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.”

Littles Doe Real Philosophy Reality Numbers Objects Appearance Perceive Attractive Crystals Analogies

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”

Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland is a place where this sort of revelation often approaches. Staring into a Scottish landscape, I have often asked myself why--in spite of all appearances--bracken, rocks, man and sea are at some level one.”

Men Kind Levels Powerful Vision Sea Rocks Approach Appearance Boundaries Landscape Staring Revelations Spite Most Powerful Scotland Scottish

Book:Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland

Source: Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland

“Appearance is a type of power.”

Type Appearance

Book:The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.. (it) looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there.”

Ifs Giving Moments Feelings Might Lasts Turns Race Crosses Ancient Appearance Lovely Spots Islands Easter Rite Massachusetts Forsaken Ageless Stonehenge Gloucester Easter Island

Author:Marsden Hartley

“Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.”

Giving Wells Art Might Artist Sound Effort Week Appearance Working It Aspire Patronizing Peeves

Author:James Nares

“Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.”

Important Life Is Social Attitude Talent Appearance Social Status

Author:Stephanie Dowrick

“When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.”

Source: Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age

“Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.”

Light Enlightenment Function Appearance Mistaken Inner Light Mental Peace

Book:Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?”

Different Use Values Language Force Essentials Degrees Shadow Assuming Appearance Painter Sufficient Opposition Shade Rationality Lighters True And False Different Values

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.”

“Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel rights," and the like, and who, if we may judge from their appearance and their yammering, are as afraid of war as they are of soap. I am sure that every student here present fully understands the importance of staying on the good side of the young "intellectuals" - I mean the windward side, of course.”

Ifs World May Mean War Young Courses Sides Forever Rights Students Judging Importance Appearance Staying Soap Campus

Author:Revilo P. Oliver

“Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.”

“The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.”

Art Use Problem Reality Art Is Appearance

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have their source in experimental method, which is acquainted only with sensible appearances and can discover nothing beyond them. The resolution of these questions transcends the methods used by physics; it is the object of metaphysics. Therefore, if the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.”

Ifs Doe Two Reality Law Used Objects Materials Theory Source Aim Method Appearance Physics Resolution Sensible Metaphysics Theoretical Subordinates Autonomous Theoretical Physics

Author:Pierre Duhem

“Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, "Where do the clothes and accessories come from?”

Ifs Knows May Different Spiritual Form Wonder Stage Clothes Appearance Stores Ghost Planes Department Clothings Accessories Department Stores

Book:Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Ghost Hunter's Guide

Source: Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Ghost Hunter's Guide

“Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.”

Believe Humans Stills Matter Order Fall Causes Sun Sky Produce Birth Increase Appearance Millionaire Human Society Comets

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.”

World Approach Appearance Interpretation Quantum Mechanic Explaining Quantum Mechanics

Author:Hugh Everett III

“[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.”

Should Desire Individual Pleasure Interesting Views Steps Knowing Journey Objects Degrees Appearance Drawing Employed Traveller

Book:Writings and Drawings

Source: Writings and Drawings

“Many people are noting the difference between Hillary Clinton's friendly public appearances and her blunt and direct Twitter account. Yeah, she's nice in person, and mean on the Internet. You know, kinda like EVERYONE.”

People Knows Mean Persons Differences Nice Internet Direct Accounts Yeah Clinton Appearance Friendly Blunt

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.”

“Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.”

Appearance Glimpse

Author:Anaxagoras