Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will nev...er give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age ...of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense b...ecause one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmatio...n of the right of the self that history has yet seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »