egoisms

The way a man handles his egoisms is a test of his mastery over an audience or a class of readers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

As the late eminent historian François Furet described it, the idea that the happiness of the individual should become the goal of society and that the social realm should be limited to the sum of all these individual happinesses constitutes a "disguising of egoisms" - which leads to a twofold deterioration: political by a sort of anarchy and moral by hedonism.

Dr. Charles G. Cogan: The Pursuit of Happiness and the Common Good 2009

What we need is a social order which allows that adolescent spirit to preserve its essence into rational maturity, and extends this possibility to as many human beings as possible, and organises social life in a way that harmonises rather than abolishes egoisms or sets them in expolitive conflict.

How local government in Las Vegas and Clark County deals with the worst joblessness crisis in a generation 2009

The offspring and the victim of these egoisms is Eyolf, “little wounded warrior,” who longs to scale the heights and dive into the depths, but must remain for ever chained to the crutch of human infirmity.

Little Eyolf 2008

The offspring and the victim of these egoisms is Eyolf, “little wounded warrior,” who longs to scale the heights and dive into the depths, but must remain for ever chained to the crutch of human infirmity.

Little Eyolf 2008

For that would mean the sacrifice of the smaller to the larger egoism, larger only in bulk, not necessarily greater in quality nor wider or nobler, since a collective egoism, result of the united egoisms of all, is as little a god to be worshipped, as flawed and often an uglier and more barbarous fetish than the egoism of the individual.'

Archive 2007-09-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

For that would mean the sacrifice of the smaller to the larger egoism, larger only in bulk, not necessarily greater in quality nor wider or nobler, since a collective egoism, result of the united egoisms of all, is as little a god to be worshipped, as flawed and often an uglier and more barbarous fetish than the egoism of the individual.'

Only a handful of India's leading citizens, at home or abroad, appears to have taken his words seriously Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

He passes, and for a little space we are left with his egoisms and idiosyncrasies more or less in suspense.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

The elimination of egoism is the second condition, not only of the rajasic and tamasic egoisms that twine around desire, but of the sattwic egoism that takes refuge in the idea of the I as the worker.

Transformation Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

Moreover with these accumulated egoisms such as must have been embodied in Gilberte there coexists some charming virtue of the parents; it appears for a moment to perform an interlude by itself, to play its touching part with an entire sincerity.

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003