What is appearance?

Famous quotes containing the word appearance:

    What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Men of all professions affect such an air and appearance as to seem to be what they wish to be believed to be—so that one might say the whole world is made up of nothing but appearances.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)