The life of an egoist is a tissue of inconsistencies, of actions that, from his own point of view, are absurd and foolish.
The universe is that great egoist that decoys= 45 =us by the grossest bird-calls.
All the same, it is the greatest mistake for his enemies to declare that he is nothing better than a cynical egoist trading on the enormous ignorance of the English middle-classes.
Lord Rhondda had genius, and though a boyish egoist in his private life he was earnestly and most eagerly anxious to sacrifice all he possessed for the good of the State.
It had been known for a long time that old Adler was an egoist and a sweater, and his son an egoist and a debauchee.
I do not mean the crude egoist who asks of anything or anybody, "What good is it (or he) for me?
He may be an egoist incapable of the continuous self-sacrifice and self-abnegation demanded by the home,--quarrelsome and selfish.
It's the principle of the thing I object to," is its commonest social disguise, which sometimes successfully hides the real motive from the egoist himself.
When Ernest discovered within his poet an ambitious egoist, the worst species of egoist (for there are some amiable forms of the vice), he felt a delicacy in leaving him.
You are eminently a woman; you neither want a man perpetually at your feet of whom you are eternally sure, nor a selfish egoist like Canalis, who will always prefer himself to you.
She was too sexless to be jealous, too great an egoist to imagine that she was being slighted.
She could have imagined him swearing volubly, laughing hysterically, biting his pipe stems in two, a whimsical egoist who rushed hither and thither to escape from being bored.
It was the laughter of an egoist who had failed utterly to grasp the significance of what he had said.
Doctor Hartley was looking at him with the undisguised enmity of the egoist tricked.
The egoist beautifying himself with love, finds himself removing his shoes, tearing off his underwear, fondling a warm thigh and steering his phallus toward its absurd destiny.
There is but one egoist and that is He who, intolerant of all but Himself, sets out to destroy all but Himself.
Again theegoist was awake and speaking within him.
There is an egoist here, in the shadow of the mosques, who turns his face towards Mecca, and prays that you may never leave your garden.
In his now bitterly acute consideration of his friendship with Hermione he realized that he had always been selfish, always the egoist claiming rather than the generous donor.
Not to be an egoist in one's joy; not to be a craven in one's sorrow.
Consider him indulgently: the Egoistis the Son of Himself.
His ideal, the common male Egoist ideal of a waxwork sex, would have been shocked to fragments had she spoken further to fill in the outlines of these awful interjections.
A shadow of the male Egoist is in the chamber of their brains overawing them.
The Egoist is our fountain-head, primeval man: the primitive is born again, the elemental reconstituted.
Egoist agony wrung the outcry from him that dupery is a more blessed condition.
Dimly as young women are informed, they have a youthful ardour of detestation that renders them less tolerant of the Egoist than their perceptive elder sisters.
We are not so much the test of the Egoist in them as they to us.
He was an egoist like his father; but he had something of his mother's charm, something of Ralph Bevan's.
Young Horace was as big an egoist as his father, but with these differences: his blood was hot instead of cold, he had his mother's humour, and he was not a fool.
Auban, anegoist of Stirner's kind, and in touching description, as that of poverty in Whitechapel.
Meredith was anegoist in his life, an anti-egoist in his books.
He was an egoistand pretender, coming of a line of egoists and pretenders, and his novels are simply the confession and apology of such a person.
Walpole, however, was an egoist of an opposite kind to Montaigne.
No thought came; for every human creature is a pure egoist in the first stirring of a passion, and stalks his quarry with blind haste, fearful that at any turn he may be balked by time or circumstance.
The gay, debonair, and brilliant egoist was tortured, and tortured almost beyond control; and it had all apparently risen through the ridiculous discussion about a street.
Man must assuredly find leisure: but, if the egoistmakes use of it, it will be lost for man; therefore you ought to have given leisure a human significance.
Sacred is everything which for the egoist is to be unapproachable, not to be touched, outside his power,--i.
He is this for it because the capacity to agree with him is wanting to the State; the egoist is precisely what it cannot "comprehend.
To the egoist nothing is high enough for him to humble himself before it, nothing so independent that he would live for love of it, nothing so sacred that he would sacrifice himself to it.
The egoist who thinks "I should like this to be" still has the sense to perceive that it is not accomplished by the fact of some believing and submitting, inasmuch as others are alert to prey upon the unresisting.
Nothing at all, because the egoist is to himself the warder of the human, and has nothing to say to the State except "Get out of my sunshine.
You despise the egoist because he puts the spiritual in the background as compared with the personal, and has his eyes on himself where you would like to see him act to favor an idea.
Well, the egoist has broken the ties of the family and found in the State a lord to shelter him against the grievously affronted spirit of the family.
He cannot do otherwise; he must find the egoistimmoral in everything in which the egoist disregards morality.
And so the matter stands in innumerable other cases: he who in human society takes the benefit of a prerogative sins egoistically against the idea of equality; he who exercises dominion is blamed as an egoist against the idea of liberty,--etc.
Only when the State comes in contact with his ownness does the egoist take an active interest in it.
But the philosophical egoist must rise to a higher plane of reflection.
So does the egoist selfishly dig about and fertilize the number One.
And, like other forms of intuitionism, it has the merit of avoiding that short-circuiting which may easily prove seductive to the egoist or the utilitarian.
The egoist may set his affections upon pleasure, and become a representative of Egoistic Hedonism, the variety of egoism normally treated as typical and made the subject of criticism in ethical treatises.
Whatever interests the egoist may have, his ultimate motive to action cannot be the recognition of the desire or will of another.
The philosophical egoist may reason with admirable consistency, and may habitually act in accordance with his convictions, leading, for him, a very endurable life.
But a philosopher may hold that human motives are always of this sort, and yet reveal unmistakably, both in his life and in his writings, that he is not really an egoistat all.
Are we not, if we take such things into consideration, back again face to face with something very like the calculus of pleasures--that bugbear of the egoist and of the utilitarian?
The stupid egoistmay become rather a consistent egoist, and increasingly so as he grows older.
Thus, the egoist may ignore duties to others, but he cannot free himself from the problems of the distribution of happiness in his own life and of the calculus of pleasures.
The task set himself by the egoist who aims at outshining his fellows in an unselfish self-forgetfulness would seem to be a particularly difficult one; yet we have all met persons who appear to be animated by some such desire.
The confessed egoistonly goes a step further in recognizing it as a principle that has no rival.
It may with some plausibility be maintained that he who lives for himself may not properly be regarded as an egoist and called selfish, if his Self is sufficiently expanded.
Your ordinary adult is an egoist in matters of the affections; a specialist in his own insignificant pursuit; a dull dog.
We cannot deny that the altruist, endowed with strong sentiments of sympathy and duty, is an excellent social worker, while the pure egoist constitutes an element of decomposition for society.
Another will pose as a social benefactor, while at home he is an egoistand a tyrant.
The sentiments of the egoist are summed up in the maxim, "After me the deluge!
This egoist succeeded later on in capturing the heart of another young girl, whom I also warned, but who married him out of pity.
In himself, the egoist is indifferent from the moral point of view, so long as he injures no one, and the altruist himself cannot live without a certain amount of egoism.
Egoism urges a man in such an irresistible way to abuse and harm others in order to satisfy himself, that a pure egoist can rarely remain indifferent from the moral point of view.
The egoist may love his wife, but this love is interested and very different from that of the altruist.
The two things are thus not identical; even the most materialistic and libidinous egoist will agree to this, if he is not too narrow-minded.
Tolstoy himself found, as we have seen, in his relations with his wife, that the maternal egoist is not quite the finest ideal of humanity.
If the Communists behave like beggars, the Egoist behaves like an owner of property.
It is true that he represents it in the abstract form of the struggle of a certain number of egoist "Egos" against another smaller number of "Egos" not less egoist.
If the Socialist says, society gives me what I need, the Egoist says, I take what I want.
The egoist withers like a solitary barren tree; but pride, ambition, as the active effort after perfection, is the source of all that is great.
A monarch is an egoist by nature, the egoist par excellence.
He controlled himself, to prove to himself that she lied, that he was not the eternal egoist she dubbed him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "egoist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adherent; braggart; egocentric; egotist; individualist; philosopher
