Egoism Quotes

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.

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

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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

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.