Contempt Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Men Scorn Self Sensitive
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
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. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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