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“People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.”

People Thinking Humans Earth Humanity Fun Wish Buddhism Endless Absurd Vanity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.”

Men Wish Focus Missing Threat Vanity Lurking Hidden Meaning

Author:David Hewson

“Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.”

Men Doe Wish Opinion Vanity

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.”

Men Evil Wish Understanding Numbers Effects Tools Accomplish Improvement Vanity Display Perversity

Book:The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

Source: The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

“Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.”

Running Desire Individual Wish Existence Quality Achievement Glory Vanity Merit Appreciated Whim Frivolous Personal Qualities

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.”

Winning Wish Secret Talking Confidence Vanity Confidant

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.”

World Persons Enough Wish Known Five Six Esteem Vanity Vain Presumptuous

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.”

Purpose Heaven Wish Beauty Female Vanity Beloved Great Gifts

Book:Helen: A Tale

Source: Helen: A Tale

“One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.”

Wish Grows Trouble Vanity

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.”

Men Want Writing Wells Heart Desire Wish Written Glory Philosophical Soldier Philosopher Vanity Cooks Servant Admiration Brag Admirer

Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

“It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.”

Ifs Mind Wish Gratitude Please Painful Favors Vanity Sensations Wiser Accord Flattered

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.”

Knows Should Kind I Can Wish Prayer Return Holy Empty Vanity Obedience My Wish

Book:King John and King Henry VIII

Source: King John and King Henry VIII