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A strong egoism is a protection.
Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.
All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.
No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.
Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.
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.
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.
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.
There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine, and I know what is going to come out of it.
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?
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.
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.
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.
