Jules Renard Quotes

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

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

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

I am a very selfish person.

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.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

me-firstism

People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don't care what you want.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

We all get self-centered.

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

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

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

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