The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time. " But mistake it not.
The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them. ” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want. ” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
I am at war. . . with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism
The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
