"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he……" — John Buchanan Robinson
"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest."
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John Buchanan Robinson
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27 Quotes by John Buchanan Robinson
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However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of…
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For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
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You are forever alone.
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Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.
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There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.
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It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
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The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
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But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their…
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Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
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Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less…
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Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is…
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism…
— Ernest Hemingway
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He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.
— Chidananda Saraswati
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The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are…
— Adam Parfrey
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When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women…
— Pope Francis
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Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
— Joseph Addison
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The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts…
— Chidananda Saraswati
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If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.
— Josh McDowell
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The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front…
— Georges Rouault
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Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited…
— Ayn Rand
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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