Egoist Quotes

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest. - John Buchanan Robinson

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. - John Ruskin

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. - George Eliot

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live. - Jules Renard

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. - Gerald Early

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists. - Sabastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom. - Albert Einstein

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. - Sigmund Freud