Helmut Schoeck famous quotes

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The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
-- Helmut Schoeck

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We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.
-- Helmut Schoeck

#Reflection #Envy #Achievement
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.
-- Helmut Schoeck

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The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
-- Helmut Schoeck

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To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.
-- Helmut Schoeck

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Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.
-- Helmut Schoeck

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Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.
-- Helmut Schoeck

#Men #Envy #Intense

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi." "I'm Goten." "I'm Goku. Hi!" .... "Daddy!
FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

Helmut Schoeck famous quotes

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