Aleister Crowley Quotes

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

me-firstism

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

Americans are so egocentric.

I am not a team player. I will not share the stage with anyone.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me...

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

People are always gonna talk, and to tell you the truth I love it. I love the attention. I do what I do because it puts a smile on my face, and I'm the only one in the world that matters.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.