Aphorisms and phrases on selfishness, quotes regarding that set of attitudes aimed mainly at pursuing the ends of the subject who created it, without worrying about any damage caused to others.
Quotes about selfishness
- Selfishness does not consist in living as we please but in demanding that others live as we see fit.
- What you give is yours forever, what you keep only for yourself is lost forever.
- I know I am selfish, but I also know that you cannot be happy if you think only of yourself at the expense of others. (Russel Brand)
- Consciousness makes us all self-centered.
- Selfishness is the first law of nature. (Marquis De Sade)
- Ideals manage to win completely only when they no longer oppose personal interest, that is, when they satisfy selfishness.
- The greatest selfishness is to seek in others the qualities that they do not have, neglecting to enhance those qualities that they really possess.
- The most sublime form of selfishness is called maternal love.
- Not love but selfishness is the real stimulus for a brave. (Madame Roland)
- Selfishness does not consist in living as we please but in demanding that others live as we see fit.
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- Selfish purposes are the only ones you can count on with confidence. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- The maximum form of selfishness is love. We don't love our partners, only their ability to love us.
- The search for selfish interest has been erected as a universal principle that permeates all aspects of existence. (George Soros)
- Authentic love is always compassion; and any love that is not compassion is selfishness.
- Selfishness is the natural state of man; vanity that of the woman. (Henri Francois Joseph Regnier)
- Man often appears colder and more selfish than he is. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- Selfishness inspires such a horror that they invented good manners to hide it, but it shines through all the veils and betrays itself on every occasion.
- A great man shows his greatness if the way he treats others is devoid of selfishness.
- I have never met a selfish worse than him in my entire life. Even when he was wrong and aware of it, he was waving it around. (Arthur Miller)
- Consciousness easily makes us all self-centered because influenced by earthly passions.
- Selfishness does not sin so much in actions as in misunderstandings. (Hugo Von Hofmannsthal)
Aphorisms on selfishness
- Selfishness is the most sacred and most certain of the laws of nature.
- The altruist is simply someone who loves to please others at the same time who satisfies his selfishness. (Thomas Neill)
- Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive egoism.
- Friendship gives the idea of lasting, love that of the eternal and selfishness is what survives one and the other.
- It disturbs me more to find men of low morale, unfair or selfish than to see mischievous monkeys, wild wolves, or the voracious vulture. (Moliere)
- Without loving yourself it is not possible to love your neighbor, self-hatred is identical to narrow selfishness and ultimately produces the same horrible isolation, the same despair.
- Selfishness is the anesthetic that suppresses the pain of stupidity. (Frank Leahy)
- All human relationships sink into the swamps of vanity and selfishness.
- The maximum form of selfishness is love. We don't love our partners, only their ability to love us.
- Selfishness is more skilled than more skilled than men.
- Selfishness inspires such a horror that they invented good manners to hide it, but it shines through all the veils and betrays itself on every occasion. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- There is no heroism in me. I am a man who loves to do. There is always selfishness. The life of a worker can be as heroic as mine.
- However many discoveries have been made in the regions of selfishness, there are still many unknown lands.
- Selfishness is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. (George Vincent Higgins)
- Selfishness is the greatest of all flatterers.
- The selfish person is the one who does not spend all the minutes of his life to ensure the happiness of all other selfish people. (Lucien Guitry)
- Theoretical selfishness possesses the consistency of pure madness; it needs no refutation, which is impossible, but treatment.
- Intolerance is a form of selfishness, and condemning selfishness in an intolerant way means sharing it. (George Santayana)
- Selfishness consists in making one's happiness from the unhappiness of everyone else.
- The man of action cannot conceive himself without a strong dose of selfishness, hardness, cunning.
- Selfishness is not love of oneself, but a disordered passion for oneself. (Aristotle)
Phrases about selfishness
- I am only interested in making sure that those who are slaves to an individualistic, indifferent and selfish mentality can free themselves from those unworthy chains and achieve a more human, noble, more fruitful lifestyle and thought that gives dignity to their passage on this earth. (Pope francesco)
- Selfishness does not sin so much in actions as in incomprehension.
- Our selfishness is a nice tool to throw dust in our eyes in a pleasant way. (Blaise Pascal)
- Selfishness inspires such a horror that they invented good manners to hide it, but it shines through all the veils and betrays itself on every occasion.
- Selfishness consists in making one's happiness the suffering of everyone.
- Selfishness speaks all languages and plays all roles, including that of generosity. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
- Selfish desires, those that harm others, always return to the sender, damaging him. (Florence Scovel Shinn)
- Without loving yourself it is not possible to love your neighbor, self-hatred is identical to narrow selfishness and ultimately produces the same horrible isolation, the same despair.
- Selfishness is a form of greed. Like any form of greed, it is insatiable, so there is never real satisfaction.
- Selfishness consists in making one's happiness the suffering of everyone. (Henri Dominique Lacordaire)
- The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
- Selfishness does not sin so much in actions, as in misunderstanding.
- Selfishness is the source and sum of all guilt and misery. (Thomas Carlyle)
- The slightest pain in our little finger worries us and annoys us more than the destruction of millions of our fellow men.
- Show me a happy man, and I will show you presumption, selfishness, malice, unless it is total ignorance. (Graham Greene)
- Selfishness leads nowhere, love instead frees you from bad thoughts.
- Friendship gives the idea of lasting, love that of the eternal and selfishness is what survives one and the other. (Henri Francois Joseph De Regnier)
- Morality is nothing more than the regularization of selfishness.
- Selfish: person without consideration for the selfishness of others. (Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce)
- You cannot waste your life on selfishness, otherwise all that will remain of you will be only a pile of words and then you will die. To give meaning to life you have to do something.
- Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the strains of selfishness. (William Arthur Ward)
