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Self Contempt Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
- Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
- The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,…
- Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
More Self Contempt Quotes
- There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt… — Thomas Mann
- Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I'm awash in self-contempt! — Woody Allen
- Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide… — Eric Hoffer
- The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx
- Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven. — Neal A. Maxwell
- The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt. — Eric Hoffer