Egotism Quotes - Page 14

• You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

  Moliere

  Family, Marriage, Thinking

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• A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Country, Strong

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.76, The Floating Press

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• There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

  Charlotte Bronte

  May, Cost, Lovers

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.320, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lines, Milton, Circumstances

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• The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

  Charles B. Macdonald

  Mistake, Pride, Golf

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• Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Believe, Soul

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• Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

  Gore Vidal

  Philosophy, Evil, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 18, 2011

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• Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Nature, Mean

  Nature, rev. ed., ch. 1 (1849)

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Music, Voice, Singing

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”

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• I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities.

  DMX

  Victory, Midst, Breakthrough

  Song: The Prayer V, Album: Grand Champ

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