Quotes About Egotism

Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is - a purely egoistic cause.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

The human race will disappear. Other races in turn will appear and disappear. The skies will be glacial and empty, traversed by the feeble light of half-dead stars. These too will disappear. Everything will disappear. And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure 'Victorian fictions.' All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact, and radiant.

A self that is only differentiated—not integrated—may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person whose self is based exclusively on integration will be connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

May your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

The obsession with originality is a *coarse* scholarly egotism. Whoever is incapable of treating every foreign thought as though it were his own, and a personal thought as though it were foreign—is no true scholar.

This is a land of neurotic egotists, each of whom, as soon as he finds himself among others, starts to instruct, criticize, offend, and show off his undoubted superiority.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Apologizing — a very desperate habit — one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

The greatest idol I will never truly remove is self.

Why you? - (...) I'm the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.