A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better…

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

— Sri Aurobindo

Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which…

— Samuel Johnson

The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these…

— Charlie Kaufman

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason…

— Blaise Pascal

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

— Henry David Thoreau

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

— Irving Howe

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia…

— Plautus

Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus

— Anacharsis Cloots

“her keyboard. “There,” she said eventually. “Bringing up real-time scan.” The display changed to a zoomed-in view of the Animus penetration around the object,…

— Mark Walden

The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry…

— Richard Stengel

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

— Plautus

“It is an animus, she decides, the representation of the Logos in the female, as the anima is the representation of Eros in the…

— Michael Gruber

I still say exactly what my original opinion is. Do you borrow money from China to send it to anyone? Out of your surplus,…

— Rand Paul

What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do…

— Michael Eric Dyson