Skip to content

Concealment Quote by Eli Siegel

“Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more…” quote by Eli Siegel — Download Open image

“Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Concealment Individuality Intrusion Personality Resisting Seems Unwelcome

More by Eli Siegel

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

Image

“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth.…

Image

There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we…

Image

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

Image

To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity...

Image

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,

Image

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it…

Image

“The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.”

Image

One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife…

Image

Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? -…

Image

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

Image

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Image

Explore all 29 Eli Siegel quotes

More Concealment quotes

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…

Richard M. Weaver

Image

“Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and…

Friedrich Nietzsche

Image

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret…

John F. Kennedy

Image

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it…

J. William Fulbright

Image

“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.”

Image

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per…

Image

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Image

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

Image

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

Image

I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape…

Image

I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best…

Grover Cleveland

Image

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

Image

Browse all 55 Concealment quotes