Quotes About Egoism

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Of all selfish bastards, a selfish bastard who likes to be liked is probably the worst. Never

Under what conditions will cooperation emerge in a world of egoists without central authority?

In… the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

El modesto se embriaga mucho antes cuando prueba la vanidad.

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune.

They had no more depth than their Facebook posts. Than their relentless egoism. Than their soulless frivolities.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

Ethical egoism is the thesis that a person should act to promote his own interest. More precisely, it is the view that each person's primary moral obligation is to achieve his own well-being and he should not sacrifice his well-being for the well-being of others.

Contrary to the prevalent image of the egoist as oblivious to all standards and moved entirely by what he wants, when he wants it, Rand sees such an erratic, emotion-driven course as a sure way to sabotage one's well-being. Serving one's interest requires action guided by the recognition of certain constant, fundamental facts. These facts are the basis of moral principles.

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

A selfish man is a thief.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

So when we have no other objective than ourselves, we cannot escape from the feeling our efforts are finally destined to vanish into nothing, since that is where we must return. But we recoil from the idea of annihilation. In such a state, we should not have the strength to live, that is to say to act and struggle, since nothing is to remain of all the trouble that we take. In a word, the state of egoism is in contradiction with human nature and hence too precarious to endure.

Sacro egoismo was the phrase; you made yourself holy by the force with which you asserted your own Godhead.

At unofficial dialogue meetings, especially at the outset, the competition to list grievances seems involuntary and occurs according to the principle of the egoism of victimization:196 there is no empathy for the other side's losses and injuries.

QUINN; You always look after Number One, don't you? ASH; Doesn't everybody?

False modesty is the last refinement of vanity.