Egoism Quotes

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this moral corruption; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

The reality is that a lot of these bad things that happen in the wrestling business, 90 percent are because of certain people's egos. There's no question about that.

Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

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

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

Steve Bannon puts himself above everything.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

What to do with Mr. Prima Donna, Brass hat, Five Star MacArthur. He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges—they at least talked with one another before they told God what to do. Mc tells God right off. It is a very great pity we have to have Stuffed Shirts like that in key positions …. Don't see how a country can produce such men as Robert E. Lee, John Pershing, Eisenhower, Bradley and at the same time produce Custers, Pattons and McArthurs

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.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.

It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.