Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Pride Quotes

Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

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

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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

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Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

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Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

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In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

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Pride goes before destruction.

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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

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So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

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In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

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Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

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