"Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly……" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of."
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458 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer has 458 quotes on this site.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a…
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the…
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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More Censured Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea],…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it…
— Samuel Johnson
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The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema,…
— Charles Hodge
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I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author…
— Anne Bronte
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have…
— Sri Aurobindo
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In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine…
— Samuel Johnson
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing…
— Plato
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If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger,…
— Horatio Nelson
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England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk.…
— John Garfield
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