Pride Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

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“Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter…

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

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Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by…

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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning…

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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort…

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“You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning…

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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well…

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A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant…

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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along…

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[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He…

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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors…

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A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal…

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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it…

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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…

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The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible…

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“To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con,…

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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its…

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“It is the noble races that have left behind them the concept 'barbarian' wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays…

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“They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

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I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them…

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One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or…

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“So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas…

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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society,…

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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy…

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid…

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The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at…

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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of…

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