Authenticity Quote by Eva Hoffman

“In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an…

— Karl Mannheim

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

— Chip Conley

“In our desire to be real we start thinking that authenticity is another word for spontaneity, as if everything we say at the spur…

— Mark Galli

We all have one authentic and one fictional self, some of us are daring enough to claim and get their way out while others…

— Senoraroy

If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly…

— Fred D'Aguiar

“Authenticity is an “owning” of all experience, including emotions and thoughts that are not socially acceptable.”

— Mary Pipher

“Authenticity is the sine qua non of everything that matters. When you encounter someone unguarded, without artifice or pretense--Mon Dieu!--you know it. I compare…

— Ellen Lubin-Sherman

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

— Patricia Hewitt

“At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to…

— Lionel Trilling

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..

— Adyashanti

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an…

— David O. Russell

“The authenticity paradox: vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me and the first thing I look for in you.”

— Brené Brown