Paul Brunton Quotes

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes.

me-firstism

Take egoism out and you would castrate the benefactors. Luther, Mirabeau, Napoleon, John Adams; and our nearer eminent public servants,—[Horace] Greeley, Theodore Parker, [Henry] Ward Beecher, Horace Mann, [William Lloyd] Garrison would lose their vigour.

The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself.

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

It's all about me, no matter who I'm fighting.

I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.

You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.