Quotes About Egoism

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in other

No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

I'm trying to do music which inspires the desire to transcend politics, which has a limited and selfish and egoist and unknowledgable end about what anyone knows about existence.

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives.

The 'all-for-me-and-only-me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

Personally I would never help mankind. -John Hammond

Love cannot be without a cause. It is simply necessary to identify where the cause lies. Even if it is called love without a cause, it just means that we did not make the effort or are unable to identify its cause, or the cause lies above our egoism and that's why we call it that.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

Thoughts of murderous egotism and revenge, and little, vagrant thoughts repulsive in their childishness, pettiness and spite. The little thoughts were perhaps the worst. Little irrelevant vagaries that insulted the dignity of man.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

La importancia personal, o el tomarse las cosas personalmente, es la expresión máxima del egoísmo, porque consideramos que todo gira a nuestro alrededor.

Esa preocupación por la propia imagen, ahí es donde reside la fatal inmadurez del hombre

If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

Then, as he is criminal he is selfish.

So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist - and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish.

Algunas personas piensan que no es posible perdonar. Están convencidas de que perdonar a otra persona es lo mismo que aprobar su conducta o tolerar lo malo o cruel que ha hecho. El perdón sólo tiene que ver contigo. Es un acto perfectamente egoísta. Al perdonar a la otra persona no lo liberas; te liberas.

Los gatos son sin duda las criaturas más egoístas, ingratas e hipócritas de este u otros mundos. Engendrados de una nefasta alianza entre Lilit y Satanás...

The Selfish Society.

Every one of those unfortunates [human beings] during the process of existence should constantly sense and be cognisant of the inevitability of his own death as well as of the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attention rests. Only such a sensation and such a cognisance can now destroy the egoism completely crystallised in them that has swallowed up the whole of their Essence, and also that tendency to hate others which flows from it.