Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Lying Quotes, Pride Quotes

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

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The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

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The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

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Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

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