Egotism

We are, the great spiritual writers insist, most fully ourselves when we give ourselves away, and it is egotism that holds us back from that transcendent experience that has been called God, Nirvana, Brahman, or the Tao.

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Egoist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.

— Egotism

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

— Egotism

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

— Egotism

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

— Egotism

It is never permissible to say, I say.

— Egotism