A Quote by Arnold Bennett

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett
English - Novelist
May 27, 1867 - March 27, 1931

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Friedrich Schiller

Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity. The water of God's grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

Ramakrishna

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

Miles Franklin

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

George Santayana

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

Dogen

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Hugh Kingsmill

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Alexander Smith

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.