“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society
“Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 185.
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