Quotes About Egoism And Altruism

#1. Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

Ellen Key

#2. 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

#3. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

Shunryu Suzuki

#4. Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance, and I've always looked up to Mike Vick, and I always will.

Terrelle Pryor

#5. 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

#6. I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.

Buck Owens

#7. I appear to have no time for blondes
except for Bugs Bunny, dressed up as a woman, as he seduces the fool Fudd. That is a woman I could be, definitely: a cartoon man-rabbit dressed up as a girl, trying to have sex with a stuttering bald man. I could definitely do that.

Caitlin Moran

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

John Buchanan Robinson

#9. In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Live with fewer things that have greater meaning.

Dominique Browning

#11. When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.

Deepak Chopra

#12. All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#13. There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Olive Schreiner

#14. Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.

Marcel Proust

#15. Egoism holds, therefore, is that each man's happiness is the sole good--that a number of different things are each of them the only good thing there is--an absolute contradiction! No more complete and thorough refutation of any theory could be desired.

G.E. Moore

#16. Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.

Tony Alessandra

#17. You just can't control your art in the future.

Damian Loeb

#18. Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism.

Joseph Conrad

#19. I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

Bradford Cox

#20. In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

Sigmund Freud

#21. Okay, woman. Spit that canary out and wipe those feathers off your chin. What the heck happened to you? Last night you were crying over a laxative commercial on TV.

Katherine Allred

#22. I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

Freema Agyeman