“but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.”
Charles Williams
War in Heaven
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
“[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.”
Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses
“He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“According to the maxims of universal toleration, the Romans protected a superstition which they despised.”
Edward Gibbon
The Christians and the Fall of Rome
“He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.”
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged