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Tag Name "Egotism" (188)

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The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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I am an expert witness because I say I am.
Don Henley
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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
Raymond Chandler
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Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.
Ilona Andrews
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
Billy Joel
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The egotist is next door to a fanatic.
Samuel Smiles
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The pest of society are the egotist, 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
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Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.
Erich Fromm
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
William Hazlitt
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart worldly politeness veils and represses it.
Blaise Pascal
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The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.
H. L. Mencken
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I get hoes like acorns falling out of trees.
Master P
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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
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Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.
William Strunk, Jr.
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The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Little cute thing said, what's yo' name? I put my necklace in her face and told her read the chain.
Ludacris
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Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed if I praise myself, much less.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
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