To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or… — John Locke Copy Share Image
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
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