Quotes About Egoism

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as "the common good". The best of us can rise to feeling concern for our families, but as a nation we are incapable of more.

We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as "the common good".

Health and spirits can only belong unalloyed to the selfish man—the

Saps que ets un covard, però la covardia t'és còmoda, i has arribat a l'edat de la comoditat, quan trair és tan fàcil, quan l'egoisme comença a burxar i vols les coses fàcils i busques raons que ho justifiquin. Per qüestions de matís defuges la responsabilitat, la part de responsabilitat que et toca...

You can boast about anything if it's all you have

You can boast about anything if it's all you have.

Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.

there is always less egoism in pure imagination than in recollection;

I have to say that I had known people whose intelligence was superior. But the infinite extent, or the egoism, of love causes us to love people whose intellectual and moral features are the least objectively defined for us, we readjust them endlessly according to our desires and our fears, we cannot separate them from ourselves, they are no more than a vast and vague terrain where we externalize our affection.

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

Self-righteousness and self-pity both lead to self-destruction.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Aun el sentirme al día con la conciencia es una especie de egoísmo, de apego a la comodidad, al confort del espíritu

vaya destapémonos a nosotros mismos dejemos que se evapore el tufo de egoísmo que nos condenan a una mediocridad inmóvil

cares nothing for others

You must look out for number one. If you don't, no one else will.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Love is an egoism of two

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Secular humanism rightly looks to reason and science, but lingering there is not enough. Religions hasten to tie secularism down to materialism, and link materialism with egoism, nihilism, and anarchy. Compared to that portrayal, spirituality or even supernaturalism might look sane and safe.

It is precisely the essential feature of egoism that it does not apprehend the full value of the isolated self. The egoist sees himself only with regard to the others, as a member of society who wishes to possess and acquire more than the others. Self-directedness or other-directedness have no essential bearing on the specific quality of love or hatred. These acts are different in themselves, quite independently of their direction

I love men too — not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no "commandment of love." I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.