Quotes About Egoism

A "selfless," "disinterested" love is a contradiction in terms: it means that one is indifferent to that which one values.

One puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one's way to get the best for oneself.

depravity." She

Barre a un lado a esos místicos corrompidos por el odio, que se presentan como amigos de la humanidad y predican que la más alta virtud que un hombre puede practicar es considerar que su propia vida carece de valor.

You need no proof, no reasons, no success, you need not achieve in fact the good of others—all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others, not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.

Do you have to be quite so fanatical and selfless about it? What? Roark asked, incredulously. Fanatical and selfless! Roark smiled. He looked down at his drawings. His elbowed moved, pressing them to his body. He said That was the most selfish thing you've ever seen a man do.

good to enjoy it at the price of the blood of others.

Sexual love, Peter, is a profoundly selfish emotion. And selfish emotions are not the ones that lead to happiness.

The Objectivist ethics, in essence, hold that man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not sacrifice himself to others, nor sacrifice others to himself. It is this last that Galt's statement summarizes.

had never learned the process of thinking about other people.

Una moralidad que se atreva a deciros que obtendréis la felicidad en la renunciación a vuestra dicha, que valoréis aquélla por el fracaso de vuestros valores, es una insolente negación de la moralidad.

La utopía de la codicia

there are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don't care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important. "Then there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people. "So," she said, looking me squarely in the eye. "Which kind of person do you want to be?

there are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don't care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important. "Then there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people.

En el mundo hay personas que solo piensan en ellas mismas. Les da igual lo que les pase a los demás, con tal de conseguir lo que quieren. Menosprecian a los demás para sentirse importantes. Y también hay gente que hace lo contrario, que es capaz de imaginar lo que sienten los demás y se esfuerza por evitar hacerles daño.

there are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don't care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.

Lo único que sabía, por instinto, era que los más pequeños rezumaban egoísmo. Formaba parte de su propia inocencia. Egoísmo por precaución, por supervivencia, por necesidad.