Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
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.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
In essence, the motivation of the attacks on advertising is hostility toward capitalism and egoism.
The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakable egoism.
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.
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