Vanity Quotes - Page 27

• The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Science, Ultimate

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• If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Pain, Philosophical

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• The worst of lusts is vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Lust, Worst

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• God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Evil, Made

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• The mother of creation is vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Mother, Purpose

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• Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Philosophy, Excuse

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• God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Sin, Thirst, Ultimate

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• A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Men, Slavery, Conditions

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• I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Sake

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• Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fool, Folly

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• After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fame, Everlasting

  "The meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Book by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, archive.org. 1887.

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.118

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• A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Atmosphere, Conceit, Certain

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• The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Bird, Vices

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.21

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• What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

  Bertrand Russell

  Needs, Satisfaction, Glory

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.449, Routledge

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• Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.

  Paul Gauguin

  Believe, Littles, Matter

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• Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Glasses, Competition, Ego

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

  William Saroyan

  Facts, Recognition, Extremes

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book by William Saroyan, 1961.

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• Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other.

  Herbert Spencer

  Running, Men, Brain

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• There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.

  Alberto Moravia

  Book, Heart, Self

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• Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

  William Graham Sumner

  Motivation, Four, Action

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

  Edmund Stoiber

  Political, Berlin, Becoming

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