My pants will be miles too long for that O'Dowd kid," responded the unwilling altruist grudgingly.
Does not the successful altruist enjoy more keenly the certainty of having made the world a better place to live in, than he had enjoyed the hope of achieving that desirable end?
The Hedonist seeks his own pleasure, where the Altruist forbids him to take thought, let alone for his gratification, but even for his good.
Thus an Hedonist cannot be Altruist to boot; and, trying to combine the two characters, the Utilitarian is committed to a self-contradiction.
But both egoist and altruist are philosophical abstractions.
WELLS Your egoist, like the solitary beasts, lives only for himself; your altruist declares that he lives only for others; for either there may be success or failure but for neither can there be tragedy.
For even if the altruistmeets nothing but ingratitude, what has he to complain of?
In point of fact, of course, he is no more an altruist than any other healthy mammal.
If he is not the exalted monopolist of liberty that he thinks he is nor the noble altruist and idealist he slaps upon the chest when he is full of rhetoric, nor the degraded dollar-chaser of European legend, then what is he?
For safety's sake, and to create an impression, I take the line of being rude to every one; but I might reasonably toss a few crumbs of condescension to an altruist from foreign parts.
Nevertheless, ben Nazir did not convince me that he was an altruist who had no private ends to serve.
In the pastor Sudermann attempts to paint the altruist in action.
Your true altruist is bounded by Tolstoy on the north, by Howells on the west, by Francis of Assisi on the south, and on the east by Buddha.
George Eliot did, however, throughout her writings, identify the altruist impulse to live for others with the Christian doctrine of the cross.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "altruist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
