Egoism Quote by Max Beerbohm

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

— David Rakoff

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

— Greg Bear

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

— Richard Dawkins

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think…

— Richard Dawkins

At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and…

— Ilona Andrews

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

— Christina Stead

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial…

— Neill Blomkamp

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual…

— Thomas Nagel

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might…

— Stephen Dunn

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of…

— Lewis Thomas

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally…

— Gary Chapman