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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.
Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.
The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.
Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?
In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.
