Max Stirner Quotes

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

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

Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

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 am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

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

The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I'm just talking and singing about myself, or I'm standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it's also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it's deeper than that.

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

If I can do something about it and won't because I want to hog the limelight, then I really have no right to talk about women's empowerment.

There is a perspective out there that I'm very much all about myself... I just live with it.

I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.