326 Quotes About Egoism

Humans exercise egoism and nature strikes blows to bring them down. Nature says, "I am the one doing (all this), and what are you doing egosim for?

When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.

Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level—at best we can end up in a minority, and those who discuss it most are just those people who are aware of its absence in themselves.

Where there is ‘egoism’, there is no God. Where there is God, there is no ‘egoism’.

Whatever one knows, he knows on the basis of his egoism. The ‘Gnani’ [The enlightened one], who doesn’t know how to do anything; has no egoism whatsoever.

As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

There are many who would take my time; I shun them. There are some who share my time; I am entertained by them. There are precious few who contribute to my time; I cherish them.

Every society seeks to confine me to the august limits of the permitted and the prohibited. But I do not acknowledge these limits, for nothing is forbidden and all is permitted to those who have the force, and the valor.