Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without." in the context of "Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life", Vol. 1, Ch. 4, § 2." to mean that wisdom is timeless.