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«Self-love seems so often unrequited.»
Author: Anthony Powell (Writer) | Keywords: self love, unrequited
«Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.»
Author: Karl Menninger, Dr. | About: Self-love | Keywords: opposed, self love, vise
«The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.»
Author: Camille Paglia | Keywords: centrality, conceptual, electrified, electrify, electrifying, hugely, Literary Art, literary criticism, modern history, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, scholarship, self love, sign language, sophistication, sorely, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing, visual, visual image
«We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Self-love | Keywords: condemn, contrary, losing, mixture, mixtures, permanently, prevents, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, pursues, self-loving, selfishness, self love, wont, wont to
«Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas | Keywords: natural order, Natural right, ordered, self love, well-ordered
«Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: instrument, preservation, self-loving, self, self love
«We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: ingratitude, in reality, self love
«We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Choice, Friends, Friendship | Keywords: circumstance, flatters, mistress, self-loving, self love
«Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: arrogant, persuades, self love
«True friendship is self-love at secondhand»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Friendship | Keywords: secondhand, self love
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