A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one and the real one.
Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
I'm not interested in what they have to say. I'm only interested in people that are interested in me for the right reasons.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.
By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.
