One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol, --ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us. Anonymous
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ..each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add...
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Tennessee Williams
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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Jane Austen
How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.
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Karen Quan
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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JeanJacques Rousseau
