Vanity Quotes — Page 31

LW

Author, Politician

“There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or at the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history.”

Writing Running Vanity

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.”

Giving Loyalty Vanity

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.”

Honest Vanity

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?”

Mother Tragedy

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Friedrich Schiller

Playwright, Poet

“Gray hairs are death's blossoms.”

Hair Vanity Gray

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.”

Men Quality Vanity

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.”

Eye Vanity Deny

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

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

Vanity Morality Hardest

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“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.”

Change Clothes Vanity

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.”

Law Vanity Hypocrite

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

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

Fear Average Vanity

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.”

Should Desire Vanity

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