Egocentrism Quotes

“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive. My self does not differ substantially from yours in terms of its thought. Many people, few ideas: we all think more or less the same, and we exchange, borrow, steal thoughts from one another. However, when someone steps on my foot, only I feel the pain. The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of egocentrism.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.”
― Arzum Uzun

“Shine your soul with the same
egoless humility as the rainbow
and no matter where you go
in this world or the next,
love will find you, attend you, and bless you.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
― The Nightvale Podcast

“Don't feed your ego with my soul.”
― Arzum Uzun

“The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

“In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe that for his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“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.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise

“Whatever else you may think, this place is not the centre of the universe.”
“It is,” he said. “Because if we ever stopped believing that, we would all die.”
― Christopher Priest, The Inverted World

“A politician is a man in his natural state”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Fights are often learning opportunities—if we’re willing to dig deep enough past our own egos.”
― lauren klarfeld

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else”
― Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford 1770-1797....

“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.”
― Wendell Berry, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

“Some people love attention so much that they usually wish for their rhetorical question to be answered.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Americans are experiencing an epidemic in narcissistic behavior in a culture that is intrinsically self-conscious and selfish, and citizens are encouraged to pursue happiness and instant gratification of their personal desires.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“What is unfair is, not life, but our demanding—as microscopic a part of life and as unnecessary to life as we are—that life happen as per our desires, which are always selfish … and almost always petty.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“Don´t let egos get in the way to ruin your day. If someone holds their inflated ego, blow it away!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“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.”
― Anthony Marais

“Розум — одне з найбільших людських обдарувань. Але дуже часто пошуки знання перешкоджають пошукам любові. Це ще одна істина, яку я відкрив для себе зовсім недавно. Я пропоную її вам як гіпотезу: розум без здатності віддавати й отримувати любов приводить до ментального й морального зриву, до неврозу й, можливо, навіть до психозу. А ще я скажу, що розум, який зосередився на собі як на центрі, що виключає людські взаємини, може привести тільки до насильства й болю [246].”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“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.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

“Stop whining about 'how could anyone do such a thing' every time you get poked by a stick. Which part of 'they are bad people, that's what they do' don't you understand?

But you do understand, you make comments such as 'I'm not surprised' on the sufferings of others of equal magnitude.

The problem, therefore, is not of lack of insight. What do you think your problem is?”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“It’s that particular logic of hers that says gravity is to blame if someone pushes you down a flight of stairs, that all trees were planted so that she could take a piss behind them, and that all roads, no matter how meandering and long, have one connecting dot, the same knot – her. Rome is a joke.”
― Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

“But what is identity really? What is it to ‘belong’ when we cast ourselves in the mold of a social group? I ask this, in spite of my implicit allegiance to one; yet, it is a worthwhile question. I mean, really, what does it even mean to share a commonality of blood or language or religion or heritage or context or economy or trade—and what value does this sharing of common traits, values and experiences truly have when there exists already a larger model of connection and commonality enveloping these disparate identities whole...? Do we pout at our inadequacies in the face of a “something” that is slightly more heterogeneous in its model of belonging? Sometimes, we simply must let go and chalk up all these movements to an inveterate (and arbitrary) sense of pride.”
― Ashim Shanker

“American society places tremendous importance upon egocentric behavior. Americans are encouraged to set ourselves apart from the group. Whereas in some societies it is an aberration to go against the whole, Americans celebrate the individual over the group. Public schools teach American grade school children that they are the captains of their destiny. American schools and society inculcate schoolchildren to measure their level of success in terms of individual accomplishments. A winner versus loser mentality prevails in American culture. Winners are the recipients of life’s economic awards. We are taught that possessing financial wherewithal will assist us attain exalted social status. Social status in turn allows select people to wield the power of influence. The silent audience consists of the economically deprived, the societal castaways whom we are taught to shun for lacking the temperament to succeed. A strong sense of self not only helps a person survive, but American society keeps score of a person’s economic victories and defeats. Americans measure the intrinsic value of our lives and recognize other people’s status principally in terms of each person’s relative economic resources.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“If your decision are simply based upon your ego, superiority complex, impulsive behaviour, and desire to be praised than make the things work..
You're bound to face results that may lead to losing good opportunities and People.”
― Himmilicious

“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?”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Christianity teaches us that sharing is the way to grow.”
― Brother Pedro

“To effectively deal with arrogance, simply stroke and soothe their ego, much like gentling a wary cat through gentle back rubs, this renders them more amenable.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua