Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...
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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
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Whoever finds love
beneath hurt and grief
disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises.
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Education. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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