Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality. . . as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.
A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.
Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.
. . . no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
Always scorn appearances and you always may.
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.
These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.
The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spirit of appearances, no one any longer believes in it. . . Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people.
I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.
Because the left, George Bush won two elections, 2000 and 2004. So 2008, we didn't see. It was obviously there. We saw effervescence and this bubbling up of this extreme left-wing cultural revolution, so to speak, but it seems like with the inauguration of [Barack] Obama, outward appearances, it seemed like the country flipped and did a 180 overnight.
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
Appearances matter — and remember to smile.
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed;. . . because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.
As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.