Sigmund Freud Quotes

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

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

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.

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

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

I don't want to be in a relationship for the same reason I don't want a kid: I don't want anything in my life to be more important than me.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.