Egoism Quotes - Page 3

• The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

  Confucius

  Prejudice, Four, Masters

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• Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

  Wayne Dyer

  Relationship, Missing, Self Centered

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• 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

  Choices, Effort, Ego

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.133, Paulist Press

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• ...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

  Skins, Lasts, Born

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• Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

  Graham Greene

  Happiness, Ignorance, Men

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

  George Meredith

  Love, Carnivals, Touchstones

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• There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

  Timothy Keller

  Self, Interesting, Miserable

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.21, Penguin

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• At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Self, Servant Of God

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• Just when I think the human race has been lost to the "what about me" people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

  Bill Engvall

  Helping Others, Thinking, Race

  Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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• The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Small Problems, Self

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• 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

  Greed, Sake, Causes

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• For the rest of your life to be as meaningful as possible, engage in spiritual practice if you can. It is nothing more than acting out of concern for others. If you practice sincerely and with persistence, little by little, step by step you will gradually reorder your habits and attitudes so as to think less about your own narrow concerns and more about others' - and thereby find peace and happiness yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Attitude

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• This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Men

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 11, Ralph Manheim translation, 1925.

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• It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.

  Albert Camus

  Fear, Arrows, Greed

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• ... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Ignorance, Roots

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• 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

  Animal, Men, Selfishness

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• The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.

  Max Stirner

  Stupid, Swings, Self

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Heart, Veils

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• All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Desire

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Judging, Want

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.69, Random House

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• I believe one must be such a big egoist that it is possible to avoid the big tendencies that cut of your head. What we call fascism and things like that. It is about egoism. When you are egoistic enough you avoid such things. You become an incurable individualist and in that case you are sailing in your own sea anyway. What is very enjoyable for the individualist is to find this kind of "happy spaces" to be in and to live in.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Believe, Cutting, Sea

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

  George Sand

  Stupid, Doubt, World

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• ‎"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love You, Attachment, Trying

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• 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

  Writing, Successful, Artist

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• 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

  Moving, Law, Perspective

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.199, Vintage

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