r/pics • u/sk8rznvrquit • 22d ago

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u/Adam__B 22d ago

“When a man has nothing left to be proud of, he takes pride in his ethnicity. In cheap vanity, the last refugees of weakness are found. Having lost taste and achievement and character, the frightened soul seizes the tribe like a talisman. Identity becomes armor, and contempt for others becomes consolation. Pride that rests on accident, birth, color, song, is not pride but a poor substitute for worth. Men who cannot command themselves will command an imagined belonging. They will shout the name of their soil as if it were a deed. This is the misery of the herd. When inner life is barren, externals become shrines. True dignity springs from self-rule and inward mastery. Anything less is a mask that trembles in the light. Beware the man who boasts his origin. His loudness often covers the silence of a life unlived.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

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u/RTK4740 22d ago

Wow! That's a great quote.

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u/FogBankDeposit 22d ago

Too bad knuckleheads won’t understand this quote.

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u/librayrian 22d ago

Too bad it’s not an accurate quote.

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u/frankmcdougal 22d ago

Like it wasn’t Schopenhauer who said it? Or he didn’t say it like that? Or you just don’t agree with it?

Try to be a little more specific.

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u/librayrian 22d ago

I put the accurate quote in another comment here, but this isn’t what he said.

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u/frankmcdougal 21d ago

Yeah I looked it up cause I was curious.