Immanuel Kant Quotes, Work Quotes, Vanity Quotes

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

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The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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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 ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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