Egotism

(161 votes)   An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(118 votes)   ''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
1864-1929, American Sociologist

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(116 votes)   He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(116 votes)   Mastery passes often for egotism.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(115 votes)   The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Lucille S. Harper

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(113 votes)   Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(112 votes)   Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

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(98 votes)   There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Agnes Repplier
1858-1950, American Author, Social Critic

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(89 votes)   I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(85 votes)   One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(80 votes)   Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

George V. Higgins
1939-, American Novelist

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(80 votes)   When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.

Dean Martin
1917-1995, French-born American-born American Actor, Singer, Lush

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(77 votes)   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
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(75 votes)   Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Marianne Moore
1887-1972, American Poet

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(75 votes)   What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

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