“There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.” MenFirstsIntelligentInstinctVanityVainDoormatSelf Glorification Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.” FirstsAgeDiesThreeThirdsPrivilegeVanitySuperiorityAristocracyDegenerates Author:Bill Vaughan
“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.” IfsMenShouldYearsFirstsHumansLongDifferentProblemRealityEarthUniverseViewsPlansMinutesPerspectiveDestructionGreedPoint Of ViewVanityInclinationTelescopesBiasedDifferent PerspectiveVistasHuman Problems Author:Rachel Carson