Fulke Greville Quotes

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

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.

All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.

We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.

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

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism.

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.