"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than……" — John Buchanan Robinson
"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
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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 cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that…
— Albert Einstein
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In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in…
— Sigmund Freud
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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating,…
— Al-Ghazali
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It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and…
— Albert Einstein
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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
— George Meredith
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In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
— John Diefenbaker
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness…
— Marquis de Sade
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But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from…
— Stephen Mitchell
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Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted…
— Blaise Cendrars
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The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and…
— Max Stirner
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Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to…
— Max Stirner
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