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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
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. -- W. Somerset Maugham
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense. -- John Buchanan Robinson
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. -- John Buchanan Robinson
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? -- Ivan Turgenev
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
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
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. -- George Eliot
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment. -- Tariq Ramadan
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. -- Giorgos Seferis
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? -- Eugenio Montale
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. -- John Buchanan Robinson
Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue, and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle. -- Blaise Cendrars
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty. -- Albert Einstein
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see. -- Al-Ghazali
Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste. -- Peter Singer
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism. -- Joseph Conrad
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth. -- Penelope Keith
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. -- Ellen Key
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. -- Thomas Jefferson
All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys. -- Sathya Sai Baba
God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold. -- Sathya Sai Baba
In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism. -- Sigmund Freud
I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows. -- Ayn Rand
Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as he re-establishes the bridge of authentic communication between earth and Heaven. -- Pope Benedict XVI
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment... -- Nikola Tesla
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy. -- Marquis de Sade
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Out of Mahat comes universal egoism. -- Swami Vivekananda
The egoist does not tolerate egoism. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
A strong egoism is a protection. -- Sigmund Freud
Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile. -- Marcel Proust
That what appears to be egoism so often isn't. -- David Foster Wallace
No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual. -- Swami Vivekananda
All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being. -- Sri Aurobindo
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography. -- H. G. Wells
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism. -- Confucius
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. -- Blaise Pascal
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism. -- Sylvia Plath
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. -- Max Beerbohm
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. -- George Meredith
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. -- George Orwell
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism. -- John Diefenbaker
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance. -- Stephen Mitchell
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. -- Rudolf Steiner
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
Adevarul despre casatorie este acela ca te face sa nu mai fi egoist. Iar oamenii lipsiti de egoism sun incolori. Le lipseste individualitatea -- Oscar Wilde
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices. -- Jean Vanier
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. -- George Orwell
Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work. -- Sri Aurobindo
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. -- Jose Saramago
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way. -- Sri Aurobindo
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body. -- Tito Colliander
Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism. -- Paul Brunton
Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship. -- Mas Oyama
True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice . -- Sathya Sai Baba
The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness. -- Swami Vivekananda
If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of. -- Bram Stoker
Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out! -- Terence McKenna
It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education anddevelopment of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment." -- Tariq Ramadan
Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. -- Anne Bancroft
Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation. -- Adolf Hitler

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