| 单词 | egoistic |
| 例句 | This confined space — realized in rich detail but no kitschy atmospheric excesses by the set designer Collette Pollard — cannot house both the damaged, delicate Blanche and the insensitive, egoistic Stanley without a decisive conflagration. | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Small Space, Big Egos: Something Will Explode 2010-06-18T23:18:00Z In his composition and his conducting — which he managed with the brisk efficiency of a bank teller giving change — he was the antithesis of the romanticized stereotype of egoistic, heaven-storming musician. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z In time, this imperative—at once protean, libertarian, and egoistic—would gird the edifice of Western individualism. A Renaissance Murder Mystery 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z We're of service to something greater than ourselves and our own selfish, egoistic needs. Rainn Wilson doesn't hold back: "Here's the guy from 'The Office' talking about suffering and death" 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z “The U.S. has increasingly drawn the alliance members into inciting tensions in the Asia-Pacific region and tried to create new military-political alliances, including countries of the region, proceeding from its own egoistic interests,” he said. Putin calls for closer Russia-China cooperation on military satellites and prospective weapons 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z She was regarded as aloof and egoistic, and could be contemptuous of actors she found lacking in commitment, bellicose in rehearsal rooms and unafraid of challenging eminent directors. Glenda Jackson, Oscar-Winning Actress Turned Politician, Dies at 87 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z She hones in on their egoistic needs with catlike reflexes, learning the routes and paths through which both may be influenced for her own purposes. Review: Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas light up the playful satire 'Official Competition' 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z It is not some kind of egoistic solipsism that would countenance deliberately coughing on someone, as she suggests. Culture feedback: From Dave Chappelle to Alex Trebek, a week of post-election highs and lows 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z On the face of it, two British indie bands being locked in a war of words about class-consciousness might seem like egoistic farce. Idles v Fat White Family: what the indie showdown tells us about class 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z No wonder people display so many defenses when confronted with the awareness of their mortality and why, when we feel most unsafe and uncertain, we tend to shift our focus to more immediate, egoistic concerns. Embracing the Ultimate Unknown 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Granted, dancing can seem like a strangely egoistic reaction to a world in which thousands are dying and even more are losing their jobs, but is marathon-watching “Gilmore Girls” or baking bread any less so? Op-Ed: We all need to shake off the pandemic, literally 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z He said Trump’s alliance with rapper Kanye West is rooted in their shared egoistic and contrarian personalities, rather than policy. Trump courts minority men with mix of policy and personal appeals 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Polls suggest a continuing public distaste for Trump’s erratic, egoistic personal style, with 65 percent finding his behavior “unpresidential” in the Post-ABC News poll. Opinion | Wake up, Democrats. Trump is on something of a roll. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Between Trump’s “egoistic policy of ‘America First’ ” and threats from Russia and China, Germany needed to lead a forceful European response. How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z It also purges the victim’s resentment of the “egoistic element,” producing a purer “vehicle of justice.” Gandhi for the Post-Truth Age 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z So, with the exception of an egoistic American politician, who needs a wall? Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Two retired police officers who are among Arpaio’s Republican challengers call him an egoistic media monger and promise to bring more professionalism and less self-promotion to the job. Longtime metro Phoenix sheriff faces his toughest race ever 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Two retired police officers who are among Arpaio's Republican challengers call him an egoistic media monger and promise to bring more professionalism and less self-promotion to the job. Longtime metro Phoenix sheriff faces his toughest race ever 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “We do not believe that man is fundamentally brutal, egoistic, and stupid in his conduct once every civilized institution is taken away,” Levi writes forthrightly. Primo Levi’s Indestructible Humanity 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z From an egoistic standpoint of the territory in question, favorite tax treatment of multinationals creates income for the local government and creates much-needed work. It Is Time To Tackle Corporate Tax Tarts 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z She also criticising another deputy minister, calling her "senseless, ugly, loud and egoistic". Ghana $1m claim minister sacked 2013-11-08T13:12:28Z I see many leaders who are somewhat egoistic. | Bill Flemming: Bill Flemming of Skanska USA Building, on Leadership 2012-08-11T18:57:09Z "It would be a simplification and possibly even a deliberate distortion of Moscow's position to believe that based on some wild, egoistic intentions, we want oil to cost $200 per barrel," Ryabkov said. Russia says West still considering military action on Iran 2012-05-20T18:24:59Z Farther on there is a splendid Antinous, robust, sensual, egoistic, a type of muscular beauty and crude determination, without heart or any sparkle of intellect. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; Ð opposed to egoistic or selfish. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Animal Ethics includes, as its two cardinal principles, the opposed classes of altruistic and egoistic acts. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z They can and do point out the incompleteness of merely egoistic Epicureanism; they exhort us to care for the pleasures of others as we do for our own. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Self-consciousness appears at first in the selfish or narrowly egoistic form of appetite and impulse. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z If Mrs. Maynard had complained, her daughter would very likely have been more egoistic. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z One does not need to accept the egoistic theory of morals to concede that self-interest is an ally of morality, that Prudence and Virtue travel hand in hand a certain distance on the same road. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z The principle on which animal life is based is hence pre�minently egoistic and acknowledges no other right than that of might. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The adequately egoistic individual retains those powers which make altruistic activities possible. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Understanding was selfish intelligence: practical in the egoistic sense. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z My life has been too narrow and egoistic and self-indulgent to deserve such confidence as yours. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z In speaking of cleanliness, there are three motives—the egoistic, the æsthetic, and the moral—to which we may appeal. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z The emptying of the milk-glands is combined with pleasure; it may therefore be regarded as primarily egoistic, and furnishes us with a further example of the development of altruism from egoism. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The individual who is inadequately egoistic loses more or less of his ability to be altruistic. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z He feels the strength of the egoistic effort after perfection, and his essay in the end tends to lose sight altogether of its second theme. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z But the fancy had proved no more than an egoistic perversion of the true impulse in him. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z From an infinite horizon he withdraws into himself, back into the small egoistic circle, where he must become dry and withered: he may possibly attain to cleverness, but never to wisdom. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The fact probably is that the mind "flickers," taking into consideration various consistent and mutually dependent ends, some of which may be primarily egoistic, some altruistic. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z One can be egoistic and at the same time excessively narcistic, i.e., have very slight need of an object. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z He owed both his success and his failure to the completeness with which he represented the particular type of the thrifty, generally sensible and patriotic, but narrow-minded and frequently egoistic bourgeois. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z It was entirely egoistic—a moment in which her rectitude congratulated itself upon—its rectitude. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z We have both been seeking them by ourselves; and we have been therefore egoistic hedonists. The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z We may overlook the slaughter, but it does not the less exist; we may egoistically shut our eyes to the pain, when it is not our pain, but it is not the less a fact. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The nocturnal psychic activity expressed in the dream we found in the service of a wish to sleep and, moreover, governed by wholly egoistic motives. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z No art is any more “egoistic” than another; all art is an attempt to express the feelings of the artist, whether it be couched in narrative form or employ a more personal expression. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z All invalids tend to become self-absorbed and selfish; but he judged Wantele hardly for encouraging, nay for fostering, Mr. Maule's egoistic unkindness to his wife. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z He who even in that past that had been clouded by egoistic eccentricity and marred by dissipation, had always counted an oath sacred! The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z To assume that egoistic pleasures may be relinquished to any extent is to fall into one of those many errors of ethical speculation which result from ignoring the laws of biology.... A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z They are scenes and events in which the egoistic, ambitious and power-seeking desires of the individual find satisfaction. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Reason, says Mr. Kidd, is the great disintegrating and egoistic force. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z And here my thesis is that Christianity is an essentially selfish creed masking its egoistic impulses under a cover of unselfishness and self-sacrifice. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z There never will be peace on such a brutally egoistic basis as that laid down in the political philosophy of these writers so prized by many Germans. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z Such altruistic satisfaction, though in a transfigured sense egoistic, will not be pursued egoistically—that is, from egoistic motives. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z We have already said that the ego suffers the symptom to exist, because one of its phases gratifies the egoistic tendency toward suppression. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z This philosophy does not allow him either to withdraw into the abstract retirement of his egoistic self, or to deny and sacrifice this self to an imaginary reality. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Perhaps at this moment children are running together under his window for a comradeship of play; let him look at them, and he will espy merry egoistic unions. Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z Left to their own devices, our minds are hopelessly egoistic. In praise of the zoo 2011-07-08T13:48:40Z But with self-consciousness is likewise developed the consciousness of other beings, and the latter, as the former, clothes itself with feelings—with egoistic feelings, and with sympathetic feelings as well. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z You might wish to interpose that the behavior of the child springs from egoistic motives and does not justify the setting up of an erotic complex. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z But never before this day had she admitted so much to herself, even in her most secret hours of egoistic self-communion.... Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Roland felt interest enough in the young lady to wish her a better fate than a man whom he had begun mentally to sum up as "an egoistic iceberg." Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z Utilitarianism has been rightly called universal hedonism, as distinguished from the hedonism of Epicurus, which was egoistic. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z There is often also an egoistic regret, or one not called forth especially by the conscience, for a past action. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z This, too, is correct, but it will soon be clear that in this, as in similar situations, the egoistic interest offers only the opportunity upon which the erotic impulse seizes. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z She knelt down beside the fallen family friend; hovered over him in an egoistic ecstasy. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z He was forced to apologize last month after calling Japan's twin disasters last month "divine punishment" for Japanese being egoistic. Japanese voters may further weaken PM over nuclear crisis 2011-04-10T13:26:34Z His prejudice against Linda was nothing but arrogant affectation, but his antipathy to Felix is sincere; it almost resembles that aversion which many egoistic men feel for one mortally ill. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z It may contain an egoistic element of regret or dread at having rendered ourselves liable to punishment or loss of some sort. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z From the standpoint of egoistic interest it would merely be stupid of the little fellow not to tolerate two persons in his services rather than only one. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Yet he failed to discover in the welter of egoistic men any continuous moral progress, although, unlike the determinists, he thought that the individual could improve himself through self-knowledge and self-control. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z He was an original genius with daring, actually engaged in winnowing the wheat of demonstrated truth from the prevailing chaff of egoistic opinion which divorced physical science from speculative philosophy. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z We find in his theory no satisfactory attempt to discriminate between the pleasure aimed at by the altruist and the immediate pleasure of egoistic action. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Predominant militancy affords no scope for the egoistic sentiment of justice, and at the same time sympathy is perpetually seared by militant activities. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Added thereto was a satisfied curiosity amalgamated with a satisfied egoistic sense of rivalry. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z The reformers of the sixteenth century, however, were egoistic leaders of men, with the self-consciousness of a great purpose and determination to put that through regardless of the suffering of others involved in it. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z And in an abrupt expansion of healthfulness, he formed egoistic resolutions. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z The failure of “laissez-faire” individualism in politics to produce that common prosperity and happiness which its advocates hoped for caused men to question the egoistic basis upon which its ethical counterpart was constructed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z We may often notice the growth of altruistic from egoistic as well as of egoistic from altruistic motives, in ourselves; for retrogression as well as progression in altruism is possible with the individual. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z It is the egoistic mind which regards all others as at its disposition. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Life and Love": "In the lower life, and in savages, the community in its characteristics approaches the masculine type; it is selfish, egoistic, unstable, variable. What a Young Husband Ought to Know And this is a widely different matter, for in this there is no inherent implication of a habit-bound or egoistic narrowness of interest in the conceiving or the launching of the venture. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude You are a voluptuous, egoistic, shameful strumpet, who certainly can scarcely remember any longer that she ever was innocent. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise "A decent respect for the opinion of mankind," as well as a desire to gain one's own self-respect, compels men to represent their more crassly egoistic desires as part of an ethical plan. American World Policies A clearer example of the egoistic use of one nation by another could hardly be found in history. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Viola Cartmell was neither egoistic nor vulgar, but she combined ambition with practical driving power, and she had eaten the bread of obscurity far longer than she liked. Years of Plenty Independence was the first great question, and that may be also an egoistic question. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine In ethics, egoistic doctrines disregard the ultimate problems of selfhood, and assume the self to consist of a man’s person and those things in which he is or ought to be directly interested. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In the first place, replies Ulrichs, I demur in this case to the phrases egoistic desires, social duties, just claims of our fellows. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists The old system was government by the Colonial Office, and in one respect it had been more deliberately egoistic than in any other part of the world. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z This feeling in women is far from being wholly egoistic. The Intellectual Life Here also the trend is away from the narrowly egoistic and towards the cosmopolitan view. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Thus Christian ethics may be said to insist equally on duty to self and duty to others, while crudely egoistic systems become unworkable if a man renders himself obnoxious to his fellows. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" I maintain that in trying to rehabilitate men of my own stamp and to justify their natural right to toleration I am not egoistic. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists The second, third, and fourth are the egoistic arguments, which express the mind of a person who sees another always in relation with himself. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z He spent these May-days of 1849 in the open air, basking in the sunshine of the awakening spring and casting away all egoistic desires. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians But such an extension of the altruistic principle by no means presupposes the elimination of egoistic impulses—of individualism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" There have been in later years glowing tributes to human rights even more than to justice, though the sentiment of rights is egoistic, while that of justice is in some measure altruistic. Concerning Justice It’s only a finer kind of self-indulgence, after all—egoistic Hedonism and that sort of thing.” Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 No constitutional machinery can be better than the men who work it, and Englishmen after the Union showed themselves no less unimaginative and egoistic than their predecessors. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The world is still vastly egoistic in its balance. In the Heart of a Fool Yet there are many fragmentary examples of lyric poetry, though it is mostly egoistic, the individual reciting his deeds or his desires. History of Human Society For, as time had passed and Bettina had got a truer insight into the man she had married, the fact had confronted her that he was egoistic to the last degree. A Manifest Destiny Meanwhile, the intelligence is necessarily the instrument of desire, and its highest good is to be the instrument of altruistic as opposed to egoistic desire. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 The egoistic habit had received a decisive check. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Without being perverse, motives may be simply egoistic and lead to good by calculated egoism. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study But she knew that was impossible—her father considered nothing but his egoistic plans. Dreamers of the Ghetto Jeff was enjoying an egoistic interlude of feeling that the things which had happened to him had been personally intended to bring him to a certain deed. The Prisoner To him the egoistic and altruistic desires were two kinds of innate tendencies, both of which exist in man from the first, though with a great preponderance on the side of egoism. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Is the life of the child egoistic, self-centered, impulsive? The Child and the Curriculum As among certain ants, there should exist a complete compensatory regulation between the egoistic sentiments and appetites on the other hand. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study We are doomed to be the drudges of neurasthenic, psychopathic, egoistic masters, if we do not open our minds to the light of science and truth. The Book of Khalid For some first frail ideas of service are beginning to incubate in that egoistic little bean of his. The Prairie Child Aristotle emphasized man's altruistic traits, Hobbes stressed his egoistic disposition. Introduction to the Science of Sociology What kept me from coming was my conceit, my egoistic vanity, and the beastly wilfullness, which I never can get rid of, though I've been struggling with it all my life. The Brothers Karamazov The egoistic sentiments and family instincts of man are still much too strong. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Why are most small business men narrow, egoistic, conservative? Women As Sex Vendors or, Why Women Are Conservative (Being a View of the Economic Status of Woman) It was not in him to consider—even as an egoistic reflection to be put aside—how far Brigit's project, carried into action, could effect his own political career. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange The Mexican senator, with his contracted, or rather egoistic views, was struck dumb by the gigantic and daring design of his companion. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora This purpose cannot have been egoistic, since God is without need, being above pleasure and pain. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The naturalist has much more fear of seeing rare and interesting wild plants and animals exterminated from the face of the earth by the egoistic and pitiless hand of man. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Placing her own personality out of the question was impossible for one so absorbed in self as this egoistic young creature. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) And has one the right to hope for miracles where the question of happiness or unhappiness in human love is the egoistic point at stake? Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange A less egoistic man would have seen that a national uprising was imminent. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) Were metaphysic to do this, it would reduce us to the condition of subjective or egoistic idealism. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 It is absolutely wrong to found social order by letting loose all our egoistic appetites without restriction. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study In its intrinsic nature it is not egoistic at all, but profoundly altruistic. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions He was not so hard, however, as he was egoistic, and it was not a question of softening his heart. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange Hitherto Marie has revealed herself to the reader as a rather commonplace, very physical, rather lazy, and quite egoistic person, one of many, with no distinguished characteristics. An Anarchist Woman Men are primarily egoistic and selfish and nothing interests them more than things that affect them personally. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing His action is therefore negative, and is to be condemned both from the ethical and the egoistic point of view. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study When, however, we regard the pleasure as future and as somehow a separable thing, we can only express these undeniable facts by accepting a purely egoistic conclusion. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill "But is it right for anyone to seclude himself so egoistically from all that is going on in the world?" asked Janina. The Comedienne He felt an egoistic aversion to the joyless sons of man. The Goose Man As a social animal man is only imperfectly adapted to the state, there going on a constant warfare between his egoistic and altruistic impulses. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative It depends on the more or less egoistic or altruistic qualities of the one who becomes enamored of a third person. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study If the Cynic and Cyrenaic philosophies of life seem too egoistic and narrow in outlook, this inadequacy has been largely overcome through the modern conception of the relation of the individual to society. The Approach to Philosophy As illustrated in the plant organism, the taking of nourishment from the air and soil, the development of the stem, branches, roots and leaves, are egoistic activities. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male To Humanity we pay our vows, we yield our gratitude, we render our homage, we direct our aspirations; for Humanity we act and live in the blessed subordination of egoistic desire. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Abortion and infanticide are so nearly universal in savage life, either as egoistic policy or group policy, that exceptions to the practice of these vices are noteworthy phenomena. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It educates his will, curbs his weak and egoistic sentiments, while exercising his faculty for creating good and useful works. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Romola felt even the springs of her once active pity drying up, and leaving her to barren egoistic complaining. Romola Those directed towards the maintenance of self are called egoistic activities, while those directed to the maintenance of the race are called phyletic activities. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male Thus, if I leave out altruistic considerations and include egoistic considerations only, I may still look back from these declining days of life with content. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV It is clear that a division between the food quest as egoistic and reproduction as altruistic cannot be made the basis of ethical constructions. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Such an action is positive from the egoistic point of view, for the individual in question benefits himself. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study She had felt herself without bonds, without motive; sinking in mere egoistic complaining that life could bring her no content; feeling a right to say, “I am tired of life, I want to die.” Romola The term egoistic implies that the effort is directed towards the ego or self, and includes all of those activities directed to the support, protection, defense and development of oneself. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male This may be the case even when the feelings of both are absolutely honest, especially if the sex feeling is not paired with cool egoistic calculation. Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English They refuse to undergo it, for purely egoistic reasons. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals From the egoistic point of view this experiment is exclusively negative. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study In spite of the narrowly egoistic turn given to men's minds by the commercial system, the tendency towards Communism is constantly appearing, and it influences our activities in a variety of ways. The Conquest of Bread It becomes manifest then that the egoistic activities of an organism represent sacrifice followed by compensation. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male The mutual adoration of two individuals, husband and wife, often degenerates into a species of egoistic enmity toward the remainder of the world. Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English The sex relation is antagonistic to the struggle for existence, and so arouses egoistic sentiments and motives, while it is itself very egoistic. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals What is the use of procreating healthy and robust children if they are vain, egoistic, impulsive, crafty, wanting in will power, or perhaps criminal? The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Is joyous and healthy nature to vanish step by step from the heart of man, and morbid, egoistic pessimism to take its place? The Gypsies It is shown above that sacrifices incident to the egoistic activities receive their compensation. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male First, it had no root in a contemplation of the march of collective humanity, and second, it considered only the purely egoistic impulses, to the exclusion of the opposite half of human tendencies. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Cases are given below in which abortion is not due to misery, but to the egoistic motive only; also cases in which abortion and infanticide are actually carried to the degree of group suicide. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals In such cases it is rarely necessary to have recourse to the threat of denunciation, but this may be required in the case of egoistic or vicious individuals. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Democracy, socialism are an effort for common betterment; the egoistic merges with the altruistic impulse. The Chief End of Man But a stability of purpose peculiar to unsensitive and egoistic young men kept Hazlitt to his quest. Erik Dorn All man's social activity was conceived as purely instrumental to the gratification of his own egoistic desires. Human Traits and their Social Significance It is sometimes said that the struggle for existence is egoistic and reproduction altruistic, but this view rests upon a very imperfect analysis. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals By the aid of a better understanding of the wants of human society, the conjoints will learn how to overcome their egoistic sentiments, their polygamous inclinations, and their jealousy, etc. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study He is imperiously egoistic, but while constantly parading his own personality he is careful never to tell you anything about it. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation In the purchase of stamps for these egoistic missives the remainder of the time passed, and before he realized the half-hour was gone, he saw his father standing in the doorway. Steve and the Steam Engine The element of truth in the nineteenth-century exaggeration of man's individuality lies in the fact that social activity is partly brought about in the satisfaction of the more egoistic impulses of the individual. Human Traits and their Social Significance Often people who are not victims interpret a natural incident by egoistic reference. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals In de Maupassant's "Une Vie," he describes with profound insight the continuous deceptions of a young innocent and sentimental girl who marries an egoistic roué, and whose life is transformed into martyrdom and completely ruined. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. The Calvary Road “Don’t you think that sometimes people grow egoistic through having to fight incessantly for existence—I mean for individual existence?” The Daughters of Danaus It is based, secondly, on the necessity for group activity and coöperation which the individual experiences in the satisfaction of his egoistic impulses and desires. Human Traits and their Social Significance All the assumptions of this egoistic life remain in existence outside the sphere of the State, in bourgeois society, but as the peculiarities of bourgeois society. Selected Essays Some men are by instinct and heredity very egoistic, others more altruistic. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study And in the fearful grimness of the man’s accents was concealed all his intense and egoistic sense of possessing in absolute ownership the business which the little boy out of the Bastille had practically created. Clayhanger The mixture of astuteness with his scruple, of egoistic policy with his stiffness for doctrine, gave him an advantage over Danton, that made his life worth exactly three months' more purchase than Danton's. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre The social behavior of man is thus seen to be no curious anomaly and contradiction in the life of an otherwise thoroughly egoistic individual. Human Traits and their Social Significance The throwing off of the political yoke was at the same time the throwing off of the bond which had curbed the egoistic spirit of civic society. Selected Essays The reciprocal adulation of two human beings easily degenerates into egoistic enmity toward the rest of the human race, and this often reacts harmfully on the quality of love. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study But the communal instinct which is generated by self-realisation readily purges itself of every egoistic taint. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular There is gain and development in this selective tendency of Love—and yet, if I am right, there is terrible danger lurking in the application of this egoistic spiritual view. Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards Many a man in whom impulses of an egoistic sort are strong cannot resist the scorn of his gang, club, or clique. Human Traits and their Social Significance But into the individuals who really formed its basis, that is, the egoistic individual. Selected Essays The fine phrases by which man's love is expressed generally cover sentiments which are much less pure and calculations much more egoistic than the relatively innocent play of the young girl. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Both movements were symptomatic of the determination of a strong-willed and egoistic race, suddenly liberated from secular oppression, to enjoy to the full the moral and material privileges of liberty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" She was not greedy, nor patriotic, neither vain nor humble, neither egoistic nor unselfish. The Dark Forest She paused, hesitating, thinking of the little island and her sudden outburst, longing to return at once to the subject which secretly obsessed her, yet fearing to seem childish, too egoistic, perhaps naively indiscreet. The Way of Ambition The liberty of the egoistic individual and the recognition of this liberty are, however, tantamount to the recognition of the unbridled movement of the intellectual and material elements which inform him. Selected Essays In infancy the individual is naturally egoistic; his appetites all tend to self-preservation. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study As a ruler you must not be so egoistic as to think of yourself alone but you must think of those who are your subjects. Foundations of World Unity Man is the creature of a struggle for existence, incurably egoistic and aggressive. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought It was Rogers' turn to preach, and, as always, Gordon prepared himself for a twenty minutes' sleep till the outburst of egoistic rhetoric was spent. The Loom of Youth The egoistic individual is the sediment of the dissolved society, the object of immediate certitude, and therefore a natural object. Selected Essays Loyal efforts made in this direction often succeed in correcting the egoistic humor with which one is affected, and in giving rise to the sentiments one desires to experience. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study If man were to care for himself only he would be nothing but an animal for only the animals are thus egoistic. Foundations of World Unity I am afraid . . . that if you really want to know what I do, you must forgive me for seeming egoistic. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Am I superstitious or egoistic in believing this? Life of Father Hecker The real man is only recognized in the shape of the egoistic individual, the true man is only recognized in the shape of the abstract citizen. Selected Essays The egoist loves in a manner naively egoistic. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study It has further such extended senses as "egoistic" and "subjective." China and the Chinese She calls upon herself to make 'greater efforts against indolence and the despondency that comes from too egoistic a dread of failure.' Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot And this combination of refusal and robbery, blatantly selfish and egoistic, conveyed to her spirit an extraordinary sense of his power. Bella Donna A Novel Political emancipation is the reduction of man, on the one side, to the member of bourgeois society, to the egoistic, independent individual, on the other side, to the citizen, to the moral person. Selected Essays A careful consideration of all the points involved will lead to no other conclusion than that whereas in Hölderlin the cosmic element predominates, Lenau stands as a type of egoistic Weltschmerz. Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry It is of a piece with the theory of 'doing good'; for all men are bigots when they attempt to measure the universal life of men by their own little egoistic standards. The Quest of the Simple Life The reason why a gas is so active is because it is so egoistic. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries We do not conceive life to be so rich in enjoyments, that it can afford to forego the cultivation of all those which address themselves to what M. Comte terms the egoistic propensities. Auguste Comte and Positivism None of the so-called rights of man, therefore, goes beyond the egoistic individual, beyond the individual as a member of bourgeois society, withdrawn into his private interests and separated from the community. Selected Essays Thus far both poets exhibit a purely egoistic type of Weltschmerz. Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry A deathbed is so terribly egoistic; it can't be helped, but he forgot himself more than ever before. Secret Bread I am intelligent matter; and matter is egoistic, having its own innate selfhood and the capacity to evolve mind. Unity of Good A butterfly or a moth is primarily egoistic and unsocial in the ordinary sense during its entire life-history, until the final reproductive act which has a value to the species. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope The sole bond which connects him with his fellows is natural necessity, material needs and private interest, the preservation of his property and his egoistic person. Selected Essays Instead of becoming cosmic in his Weltschmerz, he remains for ever egoistic. Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry But it can be shown that from an egoistic standpoint my duty to the State in this regard is my highest duty to myself. The Fertility of the Unfit Applying these distinctions to evil and God, we shall find that evil is egotistic,—boastful, but fleeing like a shadow at daybreak; while God is egoistic, knowing only His own all-presence, all-knowledge, all-power. Unity of Good Like an Amoeba, the solitary insect must be egoistic at first, in order to be altruistic in a racial sense in its last days. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope His very pity will be cowardly, egoistic—sentimentality, or little better. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century The very change in names speaks of the new personal and egoistic element that has come into journalism. Woman in Modern Society Thus from a purely egoistic standpoint, my first duty to myself is to increase the happiness in others, and, therefore, my first duty to myself becomes my highest duty to society. The Fertility of the Unfit The egoistic "I" was conspicuous by its absence. A Woman Named Smith The original egoistic tasks are not abolished, but new duties are added to them in ways we have learned to distinguish. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope I am prepared to maintain that no dream is inspired by other than egoistic emotions. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Editorial pages and news columns have been steadily modified in the direction of fragmentary, egoistic, personal and sensational, or at least emotional, appeals. Woman in Modern Society Burt was given over to a restless and inoffensively egoistic pessimism. Success A Novel One singular story of Diderot's heedlessness about himself has often been told before, but we shall be none the worse in an egoistic world for hearing it told again. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The essence, then, of repentance and purification of character consists first in the identification, and next in the sublimation of our instinctive powers and tendencies; their detachment from egoistic desires and dedication to new purposes. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Hunger is the most pressing desire of the egoistic or self-preserving impulse. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy He went on analyzing his characteristics, talking with great interest in the subject, and after a didactic style, but not with the heavy egoistic method that he had often employed years ago. The Devil's Garden As far as it is possible to achieve absolute unselfishness in a world planned upon egoistic principles Miss Polly had achieved it; and the result was that she was almost perfectly happy. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage The conflict between the desire for marriage and egoistic ambitions. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family The young woman had always been irritable, egoistic, and sensitive. The Nervous Housewife The egoistic tendencies are only a part of human nature. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy Atkins had his own foible, Fitzgibbon his, and Hartley, who knew more of the ways of men, a more interesting, but not less egoistic platform from which he desired to speak. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery It was an instinct which, if gratified, would have undermined the whole fabric of the Dinner, being essentially egoistic, destructive and malign. The Divine Fire Thus the egoistic and individualistic tendencies which modern social organization fosters in the personality of its feminine members makes them unwilling to sacrifice their ambitious plans in the performance of their natural biological functions. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family The bad child, egoistic, undisciplinable, destructive, and quarrelsome, or the child who cannot be taught honesty, or the one who continually runs away, is an unending source of "nervousness" to his mother. The Nervous Housewife This, then, completes the list of self-preservative instincts, those which are commonly called egoistic and which have been given us for the maintenance of our own individual personal lives. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy They are so many various views of the soul, according as we regard it from an intrinsic, an altruistic, or an egoistic standpoint.... Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Rather, it is Wilde the egoistic,—æsthetic philosopher, and Wilde the imaginative artist. The Art of Letters Thus it happens that marriage often presents a situation in which no outlet for personal ambitions is possible and the egoistic desires and emotions must be sternly repressed. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family There is nothing we are more egoistic about—not even children—than about cats. The Pleasures of Ignorance She looked at him, and the egoistic feeling of the superiority of the woman over the man who loves her, agreeably flattered her. The Party Only as culture arises and he is trained to see how disagreeable in others is excessive emphasis on the first person, does he learn to moderate his own excessive egoistic tendency. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. The Schoolmaster These two motives, the one egoistic and the other altruistic, actuated all the Roman emperors in varying degrees. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature A shrewd and sly observer, with his own peculiar brand of the egoistic cult, Stendhal lived a life of desperately absorbing emotions, most of them intellectual and erotic. One Hundred Best Books As an additional distinction between the egoistic and the moral determination, he mentions the judgment of merit or demerit that ensues upon actions when, and only when, they have a moral character. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Is it possible for one who has no consciousness of self to conceive as impolite the excessive use of egoistic forms of speech? Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic All that is egoistic in his nature cries out for a life of pride and power and joy. Robert Browning "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that!" he said, his egoistic tenderness instantly transformed to compassionate solicitude. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People What a soft, soothing, assuaging contrast with the difficult Lois, so imperious and egoistic! The Roll-Call As soon as reason dawns it introduces the moral motive as well as the egoistic, and to this extent the two states are contemporaneous. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics But on the other hand, in a social order in which individualism has full swing, the extreme of egoistic selfishness can also find opportunity for development. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic "Oh well," said Parry, "Bentham was only an egoistic Hedonist." The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue At first the competition is a group-competition, in which the group with altruistic members succeeds at the expense of the egoistic group. Recent Tendencies in Ethics And his talk and thoughts were egoistic accordingly. What I Remember, Volume 2 Thus men, according to their habitual conduct, are known as passionate, egoistic, or virtuous. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Her life had been always intensely personal—not selfish so much as vividly egoistic through her vitality. The Secret City "An egoistic Hedonist," Parry was beginning, but Ellis cut him short. The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue The competition between individuals favours egoistic qualities, the competition between groups favours qualities which may be called altruistic. Recent Tendencies in Ethics Religious feeling the expression of which was confined to the relations between the individual and his God, would become self-centred, egoistic, and morbid. The Church and Modern Life Even when the egoistic and the moral determination prescribe the same conduct, the one only counsels, while the other obliges. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics The most brilliant exponent of the egoistic school, Nietszche, with deadly and honourable logic, admitted that the philosophy of self-satisfaction led to looking down upon the weak, the cowardly, and the ignorant. The Defendant Now the feelings of which these classes of acts are the direct object are respectively the self-regarding and the sympathetic feelings, or, as they have been somewhat uncouthly called, the egoistic and altruistic feelings. Progressive Morality An Essay in Ethics Egoistic pleasures of all kinds are doubled by another's sympathetic participation; and the pleasures of another are added to the egoistic pleasures. Primitive Love and Love-Stories He was not near-sighted and egoistic like his friend, "the Catalan." Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Her difficulties all came out of this egoistic spirit, this want of spiritual anchorage and religious faith. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy He cannot be preserved from criminal misadventure, either by altruistic sentiments or by intelligently egoistic ones. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Martineau himself, while approaching so nearly to the egoistic centre, was safeguarded from all such vagaries by an all-pervading sense of duty. Unitarianism Here I wish to point out that the fourteen ingredients named may be divided into two groups of seven each—the egoistic and the altruistic. Primitive Love and Love-Stories But the original motive is not an egoistic, regard for useful consequences. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time She calls Dr. Cumming's teachings "the natural crop of a human mind where the soil is chiefly made up of egoistic passions and dogmatic beliefs." George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Given an egoistic consciousness, how can action which has regard for others take place? Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education So long as the egoistic worry of the sick soul guards the door, the expansive confidence of the soul of faith gains no presence. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature It was one of those rigid principles, and no petty egoistic feeling, which had been the ground of Nancy's difficult resistance to her husband's wish. Silas Marner The natural propensity which terminates directly on the object, without knowledge or foresight of the pleasurable results, comes first, and egoistic reflection directed toward the hoped-for enjoyment can develop only after this has been satisfied. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The people had to be punished for this egoistic inconsistency: Providence did not fail in its duty. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery It is sometimes assumed, explicitly or unconsciously, that an individual's tendencies are naturally purely individualistic or egoistic, and thus antisocial. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Fear, on the contrary, and all the contracted and egoistic modes of thought, are inlets to destruction. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature In reality, Mr. Vincy's wishes about his son had had a great deal of pride, inconsiderateness, and egoistic folly in them. Middlemarch Kant rightly maintains that the admixture of egoistic motives beclouds the purity of the disposition, and consequently diminishes its moral worth. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The latter in particular held him to a normal humanity; his atmosphere breathed the wholesome thickness of the majority of humankind—ordinary, egoistic, with the simplicity of the uninspiring sort. The Centaur In writing from my own experience I must ask the reader's pardon if I seem egoistic or autobiographical. The Conquest of Fear I am sorry you are so egoistic, and that my success gives you no pleasure. The Court of the Empress Josephine In his closest meditations the life-long habit of Mr. Bulstrode's mind clad his most egoistic terrors in doctrinal references to superhuman ends. Middlemarch The character of society depends on the strength of the nobler incentives, that is, the social inclinations and intellectual vivacity in opposition to the egoistic impulses and natural inertness. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time All the romantic, egoistic melancholy went down the wind. The Highwayman In sympathising with others, people for the most part want to get rid, as quick as they can, of an unpleasant feeling of involuntary, egoistic regret…. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories The consciousness of the contradiction between what is desired as a rational end and what is pursued egoistically cannot be born in him. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic These egoistic utterances must have seemed to Milton's contemporaries to be intrusive and irrelevant vanity. Milton Such a poem must almost necessarily appear tedious and egoistic, and Wordsworth's manner has not tact enough to prevent these defects from being felt to the full. Wordsworth To the questions addressed to him by the lady of the house, he answered briefly, but uneasily; he was shy, like all egoistic people. The Jew and Other Stories Which of us is proof against the temptation of making a display of magnanimity, or of playing egoistically with another devoted heart? The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories The founding of a family in its earliest stages is essentially an egoistic and ungenerous proceeding. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories The egoistic nations to the north and the south of us entered into an offensive and defensive alliance to put down, the new altruistic commonwealth, and declared war against us. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance This objection to the lyric as an encourager of subjective excitement, of egoistic introspection, like the other objections already stated, is one of old standing. A Study of Poetry But one or two generations of vice are essential now; monstrous, abject vice by which a man is transformed into a loathsome, cruel, egoistic reptile. The Possessed (The Devils) My mother certainly did bear her trial with the superb and majestic long-suffering of virtue, in which there is so much of egoistic pride. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories Charitably inclined people, as well as all other kinds of inclined people, prefer their Winkelbergs more egoistic. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago We had, of course, a great many large cities under the old egoistic conditions, which increased and fattened upon the country, and fed their cancerous life with fresh infusions of its blood. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance Besides, he was misanthropic, absorbed by his fearful moods, his egoistic preoccupations, his concern about his health—he was indifferent to everything which had formerly excited his enthusiasm or hatred. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Didn't he make you break with the family in which you were a governess, with the egoistic object of marrying you? The Possessed (The Devils) One cannot conceive of the grandly egoistic poet saying this. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Who has been quite free from egoistic escapes of the imagination, picturing desirable consequences on his own future in the presence of another's misfortune, sorrow, or death? Daniel Deronda They constituted an altruistic dominion of the egoistic empire, and, except as they were tainted by social or worldly ambitions, it was possible for every woman to be a lady, even in competitive conditions. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance Rosa saw her with no kindly eye, lazy, careless, egoistic, indifferent towards everybody, not looking after her house, or her child, or anybody, loving only herself, living only for sleeping, dawdling, and doing nothing…. Jean-Christophe, Volume I In man's dream-consciousness, where he has loosened in sleep his clutch on the egoistic limitations that daily hem him round, the omnipotence of his mind has a nightly demonstration. Autobiography of a Yogi Under a system so very barbarous, the super-sweet, egoistic voice of the club-footed poet Byron would, of course, never have been heard: one brief egoistic "lament" on Taygetus, and so an end. Prince Zaleski She had no gratuitously ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable. Daniel Deronda By such devices we seek to bring infinite existence within our finite egoistic grasp. Adventures in Contentment It cannot even be said that he was very egoistic; he had not personality enough for that. Jean-Christophe, Volume I The devotee thus avoids the slow, evolutionary monitors of egoistic actions, good and bad, of common life, cumbrous and snail-like to the eagle hearts. Autobiography of a Yogi But the reasons for such a crime are different, being egoistic in the one, and altruistic in the other case. The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 Isn't that word an egoistic one; I mean, isn't it a source of disunion?' On the Eve All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul. Sadhana : the realisation of life But he himself was more egoistic than the whole universe. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Human life is beset with sorrow until we know how to tune in with the Divine Will, whose 'right course' is often baffling to the egoistic intelligence. Autobiography of a Yogi We can demand that the legislator should distinguish between the psychological sources of these two forms of murder, the egoistic and the altruistic form. The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 He would not trust himself to see her, till he had assured himself that he could act from pure anxiety for her, and not from egoistic irritation. The Mill on the Floss From it we know, for certain, that our highest joy is in the losing of our egoistic self and in the uniting with others. Sadhana : the realisation of life Except for these overflowings they were more egoistic than ever, for their minds were filled only with the one thought, and everything was brought back to that. Jean-Christophe, Volume I I did not think that there existed in all the world a woman as profoundly egoistic, as unscrupulously ambitious, as myself. King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays Matters so vital to the interests of society cannot be left at the mercy of the egoistic whims of the individual. A Handbook of Ethical Theory He gets out of training, and concentrates upon egoistic or erotic broodings. A Modern Utopia Petersburg seemed to him more and more idle, cold and egoistic, and he had lost all faith in his Petersburg acquaintances. Letters of Anton Chekhov The most impersonal essays and poems are all in a sense egoistic. Without Prejudice I will not put him in the same apartment with reviewers who are arid, egoistic, or dull. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Some of them may pass over more naturally than others into forms of doctrine which are not egoistic at all. A Handbook of Ethical Theory Before the word "I" is employed, "Johnny" or "Baby" may have been diverted into an egoistic significance. The Nature of Goodness Nodding to one and another, he meets many acquaintances—men have no real friends as yet in this egoistic land. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance There is a good deal of this sort of pride in the careful and conscientious suppression of the egoistic in books and speeches. Without Prejudice We see in the ideal mother, father, husband, wife, in the ardent patriot and religious devotee, this sloughing-off of the egoistic nature already accomplished. Problems of Conduct I have cited some utterances which sound egoistic, and such citations might be multiplied. A Handbook of Ethical Theory Instruction which develops only egoistic sensuality is not as good as the ignorance of the proletarian, honest by instinct or by custom. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters He felt that she was being deliberately egoistic for a great reason, that she was caring for herself, soul and body, with a sort of deep and quiet intensity because of the child. In the Wilderness It is the business of every man to speak out, to be himself, to contribute his own thought to the world's thinking—to be egoistic. Without Prejudice The ultimate criterion must always be the greatest good of the greatest number; but an altruistic as well as an egoistic impulse may stand in the way of that end. Problems of Conduct And the enlightened social conscience does not regard a man as truly moral whose outward conformity to moral laws rests solely upon a basis of egoistic calculation. A Handbook of Ethical Theory One would have thought that it was obvious that a man living in this way was an evil, egoistic creature and could not possibly consider himself a Christian or a liberal. The Kingdom of God Is Within You It were difficult to say whether he really believed this; in a nature essentially egoistic, there is often no line to be drawn between genuine convictions and the irresponsible charges of resentment. Demos To be egoistic is not to be egotistic. Without Prejudice The organization of life implies a criticism of and control over altruistic as well as egoistic impulses. Problems of Conduct The doctrine of the English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is as unequivocally egoistic. A Handbook of Ethical Theory It is said to be human nature when special privileges or special gifts are used only for egoistic ends; but the complete development of the human being demands that altruistic ideas should also be cultivated. An Autobiography Even when she was still quivering under the shock and shame of her mother's guilt and her own solitude, Domini was unable to share her father's intensely egoistic view of the religion of the culprit. The Garden of Allah She tore free from his punishing grip, and pantingly glared at him—her former defiance now an egoistic fury. Children of the Whirlwind Certainly the altruistic summons cannot be ignored; we cannot all follow our egoistic impulses; in the common disaster we should be individually involved. Problems of Conduct Were all men as egoistic as Aristippus seems to have professed to be, a stable community life of any sort would be impossible. A Handbook of Ethical Theory It was egoistic; it was selfish; it was arrogant. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy By contrasting these instances with those of the other type, the egoistic geniuses such as Alexander or Napoleon, we become aware of some dim but profound dividing line separating the two groups. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North He was abominably selfish, colossally egoistic, and not a little vain; but he was shrewd; he knew how to hold his tongue; he could flatter dexterously, and he had learned to eschew satire. Democracy, an American novel Not bad in his way, but one of those narrow, conscientious pig-headed fellows who make the most trying kind of husband—bone egoistic. The Patrician The egoistic rustic may defend his selfishness by citing the proverb, "my shirt is closer to me than my coat." A Handbook of Ethical Theory According to him, Man is held through his egoistic passions, fear, cupidity, sensuality, self-esteem, and emulation; these are the mainsprings when he is not under excitement, when he reasons. The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Danton and La R�velli�re preach in vain; each is too egoistic and too worn-out; they let the rein slacken on Cambac�r�s. The French Revolution - Volume 3 Saint-Cyr could have been a first class army commander if he had been less egoistic and if he had taken the trouble to gain the affection of officers and men by caring for their welfare. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot And so egoistic in his judgment is the average man that he is apt to suspect of being humourless any one whose sense of humour squares not with his own. Yet Again The very name has an egoistic flavor; the doctrine bases itself upon the satisfaction of desire; nor do its advocates hesitate to emphasize that the satisfaction sought is the satisfaction of the agent desiring. A Handbook of Ethical Theory But these cases are rare; with the mass of men, and in most of their actions, personal interest prevails against common interest, while against the egoistic instinct the social instinct is feeble. The Modern Regime, Volume 1 No writer who was carried away by egoistic anger or disappointment could have told these stories of unhappiness, infidelity, and luckless love with such dispassionate lucidity. Mauprat Algarotti is too prudent, politely egoistic and self-contained, to take the trouble of hurting anybody, or get himself into trouble for love or hatred. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. A Miscellany of Men Nevertheless, from this egoistic root springs a flower which disseminates the perfume of a saintly self-abnegation. A Handbook of Ethical Theory "Mademoiselle Lange," continued Armand with all the egoistic ardour of the lover who believes that the attention of the entire world is concentrated upon his beloved. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel That man had been the first to divide him in the all but equal slices of his egoistic from his amatory self: murder of his individuality was the crime of Horace De Craye. The Egoist He now saw clearly in his fatuous visitor the conceit of the lady-killer, the egoistic complacency of the successful trifler. Whirligigs Thus an individual who is strongly egoistic in his purposes and aims may succeed if at the same time he is determined intelligent and shrewd. The Foundations of Personality On the surface, at least, the last doctrine appears to stand out as more distinctly egoistic. A Handbook of Ethical Theory Pride-hurt she glowed upon him in a way that would have sent her higher adorers into an egoistic paradise. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million The discovery he made was, that in the gratification of the egoistic instinct we may so beset ourselves as to deal a slaughtering wound upon Self to whatsoever quarter we turn. The Egoist They are so many various views of the soul according as we regard it from an intrinsic, an altruistic, or an egoistic standpoint. The Soul of the Far East But let us suppose he has a son who is as strongly egoistic, is as determined, but lacks intelligence and shrewdness. The Foundations of Personality The idiot is he whose egoistic eye is the only key-hole through which he looks into the decorated parlor we call the world. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Art, science, public works, everything, is consumed by a horribly egoistic feeling, the leprosy of the time. The Magic Skin But that chance has a sugarcoating; it is swathed in egoistic illusion; it shows less stark and intolerable chanciness, so to speak, than the bald hazard of the die. In Defense of Women Such an egoistic conception is quite foreign to our longitudinal antipodes. The Soul of the Far East The anger emotion is aroused by a thwarting of the instincts and purposes, and in the main the strongly egoistic are those most given to explosive or chronic anger. The Foundations of Personality A certain subjective or egoistic attitude is potent in this regard, for people in the main conceive the law to be made only for others; they themselves are exceptions. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Every capacity for egoistic pleasure—in the common meaning of the word "egoistic"—has been equally repressed through physiological modification. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility. Babbitt His reproach, without bitterness or scorn, was a lash to her old egoistic belief in her fairness. Light of the Western Stars There have been those who used assassination to bring about reform, and there are plenty who use philanthropy to hasten their egoistic aims. The Foundations of Personality The individuals who react this way to obstacles are choleric, passionate, egoistic and in the last analysis somewhat brutal. The Foundations of Personality It is a law of life that the herd follows the unwounded, confident, egoistic leader and tears to pieces or deserts the one who is wearying. The Foundations of Personality Pity directed toward oneself as the object is self-pity,—a quality found in children and in a certain amiable, weak, egoistic type, whose eyes are always full of tears as they talk of themselves. The Foundations of Personality Righteous anger, whether against one's own wrongs or the wrongs of others, is the hall-mark of the brave and noble spirit; mean, egoistic anger is a great world danger, born of prejudice and egoism. The Foundations of Personality A leader may be rankly egoistic and careless of the welfare of his people—Alexander, Napoleon—or he may be imbued with a mission which is altruistic but unwise. The Foundations of Personality Every human being, no matter how civilized and unified, how modern and social in his conduct, has within him a core of uncivilized, disintegrating, ancient and egoistic desires and purposes. The Foundations of Personality Wherever wills and purposes meet in conflict, there anger, or its offshoot, contempt, is present, and the more egoistic one is, the more egoistic the sources of anger. The Foundations of Personality We may contrast egoistic anger with the altruistic and oppose the anger which is effective with the anger that disturbs reason and judgment; intellectual anger against brute anger. The Foundations of Personality "Having one's way" becomes a dominant desire with many people, and much of the clashing that occurs in families, organizations and the council chambers of nations arises from a childish, egoistic seeking of superiority. The Foundations of Personality |
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