88 Quotes About Superficiality

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.

—¿Yo? Tu eres la bestia estúpida que no vio su camino—respondí mirándolo fríamente.—Tal vez si fueras capaz de ver más allá de ti misma me hubieras visto.

For they do not look through to the soul, nor have a keen eye for virtue, but they stop at the outward excellencies of the body, and admire daring, and strength, speed in running, and size, and consider these as fit qualifications for the purple robe and diadem.

Vanity dulls the senses.

Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.

Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, antagonistic, or materialistic ego of the author.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no part of it.