Egotism Quotes - Page 6

• It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called "egolessness.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Mean, Ego

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Sep 13, 2013

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• Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

  Hugh Dalton

  Mad, Gone, Unilateralism

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• Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Generosity, Addiction

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

  Byron Katie

  Truth, Ego, Terrified

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2011

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• The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vanity, Fishing, Evil

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• Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

  Guru Nanak

  Illusion, Deceiving, Tricks

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• Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Leader, Religious Leaders

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• I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Arms, Fortune, Companion

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• The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.

  Martin Amis

  People, Feelings, Phenomenon

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The pest of society is egotists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364

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• Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

  Bobby Darin

  Thinking, Knowing, Conceit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Disease, Terrible, Dies

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• The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Attention, Neurosis

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• The unfortunate are always egotistical.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Egotistical, Unfortunate

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

  Evan Esar

  Together, Egocentric, Persons

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• Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Men, Amity, One Man

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• Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Degrees

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.369

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• The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Self, Hints

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.69

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• Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Opinion, Specialists

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• Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Ego, Veils

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.293

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• It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

  William Hazlitt

  Principles, Inference, Contrary

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1492, Delphi Classics

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• The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

  Alan Watts

  Focus, Ego, Attention

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.21, Sounds True

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• Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

  William James

  Religion, Chapters, Humans

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.440, Library of America

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• If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Attachment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.51, Open Road Media

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