“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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Context: The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive.
“What makes the vanity of others insufferable to us is that it wounds our own.”
Ce qui nous rend la vanité des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la nôtre.
Maxim 389.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Our eternity is not real; it resembles us; it is our own invention; its scent is vanity.”
“Eternity and Eternity,” p. 32
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.”
Science and the Unseen World (1929), VII, p.68
Variant: Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
A reminder to us flyspecks on an elephant's butt http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/07/a-reminder-to-us-flyspecks-on-an-elephants-butt/, wattsupwiththat.com, May 7, 2008.
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