Quotes About Egoistic

#1. Don't tell me! You're just rubbing it in! It serves me right, though: it was vanity that kept me from coming, egoistic vanity and base despotism, which I haven't been able to get rid of all my life, though all my life I've been trying to break myself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

Ellen Key

#3. One' is not a doer in this world. Where he believes that he is the doer, there is 'charging' (of karma). When one tastes egoistic pride of, "I did this samayik, I did these activities", he will 'charge' (karma). The taste of egoistic pride is very sweet.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

Paulo Freire

#5. Sex is about physical attraction, yes, but it's also about trust. I don't trust you. You're completely self-absorbed and egoistic. You offer nothing I want.

Ilona Andrews

#6. Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

Paul Brunton

#7. When you see the divinity in others, you are Divine. When you see ego in others, you are egoistic.

Amit Ray

#8. There is this arrogant feeling of being stronger than human. Humans are weak. They submit to their emotions, and vampires do not. Humans are very egoistic, and vampires are not.

Richard Sammel

#9. From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

Dada Vaswani

#10. You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.

Kenji Mizoguchi

#11. Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Our greatest opportunities are to let go and surrender to that which is greater than our egoistic needs and desires.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#13. Shine with a genuine golden heart not with a business egoistic sparkle.

Angelica Hopes

#14. Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Our mind is mysterious, a wonderful force, which emits our thoughts, aggressively residing and thriving in our egoistic self. Remove all thought and there will be no mind, world, perception, sensation, feeling, conscious experience or anything at all.

Gian Kumar

#16. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Sigmund Freud

#17. Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is - a purely egoistic cause.

Max Stirner

#18. He who is active in politics strives for power, either as a means in serving other ends, ideal or egoistic, or as 'power for power's sake,' that is, in order to enjoy the prestige-feeling that power gives.

Moises Naim

#19. Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

Jaggi Vasudev

#20. To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

Sri Aurobindo

#21. The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

D.H. Lawrence

#22. The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Dalai Lama

#23. The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#24. The great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

Brenda Ueland

#25. Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

Ruben Ostlund

#26. The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

Samael Aun Weor

#27. 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

#28. What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.

Susan Scott

#29. 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

#30. Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

Paul Brunton

#31. Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.

Radhe Maa

#32. To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.

Sinclair Lewis

#33. There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

John Ruskin

#35. Egoism's nature is not Moha (Illusory attachment). Moha's (Illusory attachment's) nature is egoism. Moha is the origin of egoism.

Dada Bhagwan

#36. EGO stands for Exclude God's Opinion. We think we know everything. Do we really know everything about the working of physical, mental and spiritual world? Not even a tenth!

Maddy Malhotra

#37. Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other people's interests

Bangambiki Habyarimana