Egoism Quotes
Egoism Quote of the day
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.
I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
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.
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
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.
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
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.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.
All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!
She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.
Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.
There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.