Egoism Quotes - Page 6

• Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.

  Craig Biddle

  Self, Morality, Human Life

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• We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.

  Sándor Márai

  Vanity, Who We Are, Life Is

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• The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.

  Margaret Mead

  Organization, Different, Phases

  "Social Cognitive Psychology: History and Current Domains" by David F. Barone, James E. Maddux, Charles R. Snyder, (p. 20), 1997.

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• It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Personality, Individuality

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• 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

  Fighting, Pride, Loss

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Oct 27, 2016

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• All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Sacrifice, Names

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 180), 1986.

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• To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

  Sylvia Plath

  World, Height, Desperate

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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