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Vanity Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.
- One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.
- He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of…
- 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.
- Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
- What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the…
- What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the…
- One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
- Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
- Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
- Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
- One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains…
- The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
- 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,…
- How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of every class: they…
More Vanity Quotes
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. — Jane Austen
- I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power. — Michele Bachmann
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it.… — Van Wyck Brooks
- Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. — Jean de la Bruyere
- The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. — Samuel Butler
- The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. — Thomas Carlyle
- I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. — Muhammad Ali
- The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego… — Graydon Carter
- Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. — Julian Casablancas
- The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. — Miguel de Cervantes