Despises Quotes

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Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in… — Carl Jung
The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to… — Sergey Nechayev
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based… — Leo Strauss
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality,… — Mircea Eliade
A hungry stomach rarely despises common food. — Horace
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what… — Frederic Bastiat
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. — Robert Burns
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men. — Plutarch
That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought… — John Calvin
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises… — Jim Bishop
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. — Hippocrates
He who despises life is his life's master. — Pierre Corneille
Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability… — Woody Hayes
... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the… — Pope Clement I
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. — Jean de la Bruyere
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. — Unknown Author
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. — Leonardo da Vinci
He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he… — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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