A rational egoist will desire a law that everyone except him will follow. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
For the psychological egoist, that is not even a possibility. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Utilitarianism] Reference
Then you all listened to the very corporate plutocracy tell you that Nader was an "egoist" and that everything was his fault. From Wordnik.com. [The Obama-Clinton Cabinet? We Voted for CHANGE, Not Recycling] Reference
Even that arch-egoist, Byron, concedes this point. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Denial is a wonderful tool in the hands of an egoist. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
I might do all that — and be an egoist all the same. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference
Oh yes, and it also said I ranked moderate as an egoist. From Wordnik.com. [lily-white Diary Entry] Reference
"I know I'm an abominable old egoist," at length she apologised. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
“Well, and you?” he said, “do you too think me an egoist?”. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference
The confessed egoist only goes a step further in recognizing it as. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
She called him a huge egoist that does not care about other people. From Wordnik.com. [Natascha Kampusch To Josef Fritzl: You're A Huge Lying Egotist!] Reference
Are we to regard him as a mere lawless egoist, or as something more?. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
So does the egoist selfishly dig about and fertilize the number One. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
But the philosophical egoist must rise to a higher plane of reflection. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The egoist, the intellectual, gives but little of himself and asks much. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Lavretsky, “I will not be an egoist” — and he went into the house. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference
An unselfish egoist is a man who has pride without the excuse of passion. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
Raymond, a strong individualist, a pronounced egoist, could not "fall in.". From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Generally, he is written off as a maverick and an egoist, but this is a mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from Underground] Reference
He whose motive to action is always some idea of his own personal good is an egoist. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
We do not think like the capitalists who believe that man is a egoist, a brutal wolf. From Wordnik.com. [12TH ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON MONCADA BARRACKS] Reference
Once upon a time there was an ostrich who, though very ostrichy, was even more of an egoist. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914] Reference
The hypothetical egoist Robinson refers tohas enough self knowledge to recognize his own duplicity. From Wordnik.com. [In Pursuit of Happiness] Reference
Then Larry finds out Ted made his gift "anonymous," making Larry look like a royal celebrity egoist. From Wordnik.com. [Perry Garfinkel: The 7 Laws Of Inconspicuous Consumption] Reference
It will be some other brilliant egoist who will thrill her, grind her heart, and give her wonderful children. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
No mere egoist could have been so faithful in his hero-worship or so unpretentious in his allusions to himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Am I spoiling the Apple-hating party for you and all the basement dwelling Microsoft gamer egoist creeps here at TC?. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Rejects Someecards App For Being Full Of Someecards Content] Reference
It seems, on the one hand, to stop the mouth of the egoist, who insists that his own advantage is his only proper aim. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
An egoist necessarily assumes that the rest of the world attributes to his acts the importance he himself assigns to them. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist, and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
No, I was such an egoist, I was so lacking in respect for my fellow-creatures that I could not even imagine she would do so. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from Underground] Reference
First, the egoist calls life a war without mercy, and then he takes the greatest possible trouble to drill his enemies in war. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
Cowperwood was innately and primarily an egoist and intellectual, though blended strongly therewith, was a humane and democratic spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
At the same time he did not consider himself an egoist, and was particularly severe in censuring, and keen in detecting egoists and egoism. From Wordnik.com. [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference
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