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