“An egotism like an eggshell is a thing from which to escape; the art of life is that escape. The fundamental art of life is to recover the sense of that great self-forgetful continuous life from which we have individually… — Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion Copy Share Image
“Your egoist, like the solitary beasts, lives only for himself; your altruist declares that he lives only for others; for either there may be success or failure but for neither can there be tragedy. For even if the altruist meets nothing but ingratitude, what has he to complain of? His premises abolish his grounds of complaint. But both egoist and… — Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion Copy Share
“Observe me," he says to himself, "I am observing nature." There is the self-conscious, self-centred boy. But he also says "I am observing nature!” — Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion Copy Share Image
“An egotism like an eggshell is a thing from which to escape; the art of life is that escape. The fundamental art of life… — Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion Copy Share Image
