#egoism

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

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In fondo non è male tenere in gabbia le persone che si amano. ↗

— Diego De Silva

#egoismo #gabbia #love #love

Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it’s a long way, which in fact begins from our egoism, for really, a human can’t love others if he doesn’t love himself first. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#life #self-love #love