Best Egoism Sayings
171 Egoism quotes by 59 unique authors
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is…
— Tariq Ramadan
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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…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
— Erwin Schrodinger
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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…
— Giorgos Seferis
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.…
— Hermann Hesse
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The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism…
— Karen Armstrong
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A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed…
— Francoise Sagan
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If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
— Jean Vanier
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Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an…
— Paul Brunton
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What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride…
— Nikola Tesla
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Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material…
— Adolf Hitler
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"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without…
— Anthony de Mello
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That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.
— David Foster Wallace
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...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…
— Jose Saramago
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I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush…
— Anais Nin
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To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
— Sylvia Plath
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We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us…
— Sándor Márai
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in…
— Albert Einstein
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
— F. Sionil Jose
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Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
— Penelope Keith
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Love is an egoism of two
— Antoine De La Salle
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Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To live a purposeful life, one must rise above the petty materialistic life of passion and egoism.
— Senoraroy
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The saints are in the black list.
— Ilkin Santak
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