Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“Each time something more interesting than you turns up— at work, a person, an opportunity—he will ignore you again. The disappointment each… — Ramani Durvasula Copy Share Image
If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
“If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying;… — Claude Cahun Copy Share Image
There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face… — Susan Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Justified within ourselves that we have suffered more than others, we feel guiltless when we disregard those in front of us, be… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean,… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous.… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of. — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
“In a narcissist's world you are not their one and only. You are an extension of that person and last place in… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
“A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“The faculty to think objectively is reason ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility . To be objective, to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
“Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know you! You want to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Confidence don't mean jack shit in the real world, sis," she once said. I feel myself finding the courage to trust those… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precocious little girl who said… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image