Best Egoism Quotes
171 Egoism quotes by 59 unique authors
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Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
— Thomas Jefferson
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For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years.…
— Jean Giono
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As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything…
— Charlie Chaplin
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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…
— Mas Oyama
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Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.
— Swami Vivekananda
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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…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that…
— Bram Stoker
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There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished…
— John Dewey
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This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly…
— Adolf Hitler
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Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.
— Marcel Proust
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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…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
— Ivan Turgenev
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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
— George Orwell
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Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible.…
— Bill Paxton
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The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
— Rudolf Steiner
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Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which…
— Joseph Conrad
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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…
— George Eliot
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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.
— George Eliot
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man…
— Eugenio Montale
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