Conceal Quotes - 4
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Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.
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More Conceal Quotes
All the sophisticated syllogisms of the ponderous volumes published by Marx, Engels, and hundreds of Marxian authors cannot conceal the fact that the only and ultimate source of Marx's prophecy is an alleged inspiration by virtue of which Marx claims to have guessed the plans of the mysterious powers determining the course of history. Like Hegel , Marx was a prophet communicating to the people the revelation that an inner voice had imparted to him.
karl marx— Ludwig von Mises (1949), Human Action
Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.
Northrop Frye— Chapter Five, p. 136
...with address enough to refuse, without offending, or, by your manner of granting, to double the obligation ; dexterity enough to conceal a truth without telling a lie: sagacity enough to read other people's countenances; and serenity enough not to discover anything by yours; a seaming frankness with a real reserve.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1876, p.140
The producer. This is a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate— Ego 6, p. 199, June 26, 1943.
