41 Quotes About Egocentrism

Henderson promoted an idea that we could all be the center of attention all the time. But if everyone is onstage, who's in the audience?

The presence or calling of God can be no reasons but the guidance of God because of His glorification.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods.

If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.

When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism.

I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else

Le ciel de l'humanité moderne s'est brisé en éclats dans la lutte cyclopéenne pour la richesse et la puissance. Oui ce monde avance à tâtons dans les ténèbres de l'égocentrisme et de la vulgarité. La connaissance s'achète au prix de la mauvaise conscience, la bienveillance se mesure à l'aune de l'utilité. L'Orient et l'Occident, comme deux dragons ballotés sur une mer en furie, luttent en vain pour reconquérir le joyau de la vie.

To conceive of a god in one’s image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring the egocentrism to new heights.