"If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine……" — Robert A. Heinlein
"If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!"
More Altruistic Quotes
- We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we… — Mortimer Adler
- The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic… — Jo Brand
- Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed… — Theodore Beale
- A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various… — Dalai Lama
- Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever… — Ayn Rand
- The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish,… — Richard J. Foster
- Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always… — Dian Fossey
- Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious… — Karl Rahner
- Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- — Robert A. Heinlein
- There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered,… — Roger N. Walsh
- The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. — Max Beerbohm
- The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who… — Robert J. Havighurst