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«The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.»
Author: B. C. Forbes
(Editor, Founder)
| Keywords:
corrode, corroded, corrodes, corroding, derivable, ennoble, ennobled, ennobles, ennobling, helpful, kindly, put off, reaps, satisfies, selfishness, unhappiness, unselfishness
«The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
conservative, engaged, exercises, justification, modern philosophy, moral philosophy, oldest, selfishness, The Search
«Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
curse, selfishness
«To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature»
Author: Adam Smith
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
affections, benevolent, constitute, restrain, selfishness
«The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
collapse, contributing, crash, crisis, deciding, dollars, greed, healing, larger, our planet, selfishness, structure, The crash, The Crisis, the system, Western, westerns
«Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
adequate, adequate to, enlightened, enterprise, Labor Day, motive, proposes, proposing, selfishness, socialism, substitute
«Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
antagonism, antagonisms, ceaselessly, collision, collisions, convulsion, convulsions, extension, fiercely, selfishness, shocks, throe, throes
«Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Selfishness,
Truth
| Keywords:
and elsewhere, elsewhere, regard, Rest of the world, selfishness
«Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
aspiration, atheism, selfishness, unselfishness
«These small things -- nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness -- are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
casuistry, climate, inconceivably, nutrition, re-creation, recreation, recreations, selfishness
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