Egotism Quote by John Derbyshire

“Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.”

— Adelyn Birch

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

— Franz Grillparzer

“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed…

— Athene's Theory of Everything

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of…

— Rumi

“This is theory’s acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are present, that it…

— Joan Cocks

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts,…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Anyway, there are two tentative solutions for getting rid of selfishness - both involving a stoic casting - off of the thin tenuous little…

— Sylvia Plath

“We must eliminate the individual tendency to selfishness that snares the soul, shrinks the heart, and darkens the mind.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

“They strive to attain their wishes by every available means, instructing and compelling themselves to dishonest and difficult acts. And when their labour is…

— Seneca

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

— John Stuart Mill

“A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And…

— G.K. Chesterton