Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. Parerga and Paralipomena
Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference. Psychology of the Unconscious
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre. Beyond Good and Evil
Though men are inseparable from the Logos, yet they are separated in it; and though they encounter it daily, they are alienated from it Fragments
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