Human Vanity Quotes
- The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog;… — Ingrid Newkirk
- No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton
- He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally… — Saint Augustine
- These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed… — Bram Stoker
- Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the… — Richard Dawkins
- The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent,… — Friedrich Nietzsche