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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON EGOTISM
An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")
An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
Diana Black
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904, American author, lawyer)
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Bellamy Brooks
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929, American sociologist)
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
E. M. Cioran (1911-1995, Rumanian-born French philosopher)
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
E. M. Cioran (1911-1995, Rumanian-born French philosopher)
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord (1931-, French philosopher)
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The pests of society are the egotists, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
Epictetus (50-138, Phrygian philosopher)
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France (1844-1924, French writer)
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Lucille S. Harper
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
George V. Higgins (1939-, American novelist)
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist)
We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that. I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon (1940-1980, British rock musician)
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
Dean Martin (1917-1995, French-born American actor, singer)
Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness.
Roger MCkuen
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933, American author)
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
Marianne Moore (1887-1972, American poet)
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
H. Ross Perot (1930-, American businessman, founder of EDS)
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
Agnes Repplier (1858-1950, American author, social critic)
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 (1830-1867, Scottish poet, author)
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.
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955, American poet)
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
If you are in the future, then ego seems to be very substantial. If you are in the present, the ego is a mirage; it starts disappearing.
Author Unknown
The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.
Author Unknown
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore Vidal (1925-, American novelist, critic)
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