#philosophy
"The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast of it, and probably not even to be aware of it."
React to this quote
More by Henri Peyre
See allResonant Thoughts
"I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled."
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
1795–1881
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Jim Dandy waves his stick over and around about the rock in a meaningless-meaningful way."
— William Saroyan"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less."
— Eldridge Cleaver"The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture."
— Bertrand Russell"We never thought, sitting in my office on those afternoons, discussing Voltaire and Ingersoll, that we woul…"
— William Faulkner"While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals i…"
— Daniel J. Boorstin"Let us conceive, then, of an algebra in which the symbols x, y z etc. admit indifferently of the values 0 a…"
— George Boole
Related Thinkers
Related Topics
Deep Dives
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on philosophy
- Randy Pausch on philosophy
- Laurence Tribe on philosophy
- Margaret Sanger on philosophy
- Karl E. Weick on philosophy
- George Saintsbury on philosophy
- Gary Yourofsky on philosophy
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on life
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on truth
- Nisargadatta Maharaj on knowledge
- knowledge & Beauty
- knowledge & Change

