Attitude Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

“At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite.” —Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims,”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The long tradition of naiveté and self-righteousness that disfigures our intellectual history, however, must serve as a warning to the third world, if such…

— Noam Chomsky

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

— Charles Dickens

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

“When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the world is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we…

— Alexander Pope

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to…

— George Santayana

“When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested…

— David Hume

“Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people…

— Agnostic Zetetic