Quotes of: Egoism Keyword

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

George Eliot

True love is egoism à duex - egoism for two.

Selfish Path to Romance: How to Love With Passion & Reason, Inspired by Ayn Rand

…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to think only of herself experienced an egoism so immaculate.

Thirst for Love

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentio...

Hermann Hesse

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Penelope Keith

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

Erwin Schrodinger

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

John Buchanan Robinson

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Ivan Turgenev

Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.

Andy Paula

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Middlemarch

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

F. Sionil Jose

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

John Buchanan Robinson

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Erwin Schrodinger

Adevarul despre casatorie este acela ca te face sa nu mai fi egoist. Iar oamenii lipsiti de egoism sun incolori. Le lipseste individualitatea

Dorian Gray

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

Jonathan Haidt