A Quote by Subhash Kak

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

Subhash Kak

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Acting Animal Happiest Man Mask Mimic Needing Part Tell Truth

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Subhash Kak
American - Scientist
Born: March 26, 1947

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.

Edwidge Danticat

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

Hugh MacLennan

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

Democritus

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

Corey Stoll

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

Tom Robbins

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Gao Xingjian

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Erich Fromm

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.

Charles Grandison Finney

I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

Jamie Farr

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

Emily Dickinson

I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.