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Tag Name "Conceals" (51)

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Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that God did it is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation.
Peter Atkins
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Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere survivals - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
Ambrose Bierce
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I believe in art that conceals art.
Rita Mae Brown
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The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when they might wish to do so. Yet they are always ready to exchange the quiet of contemplation for the works of mercy as soon as they perceive in their heart the invitation of Christ.
Anthony of Padua
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
Charles Baudelaire
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The machine conceals the machinations.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.
Confucius
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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
Virginia Woolf
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
Edward Young
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
Walter Savage Landor
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Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
Greta Garbo
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It is safer to learn than teach and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
William Penn
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The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
Heraclitus
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The riddle of Mozart is precisely that the man refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Horace
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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.
Jane Austen
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I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
Jim Morrison
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Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
Josef von Sternberg
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Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
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The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.
Albert Camus
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
Michel de Montaigne
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Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
Albert Einstein
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