A flash of manly anger like this is very welcome to us, who have to thread a tedious way between morbid egoistic irritation on the one hand, and sly pieces of equivocal complaisance on the other.
There is nothing more quaint than the appearance of a few of the sacramental phrases of the sect of the economists, floating in the midst of a copious stream of egoistic whimsicalities.
The egoistic character that loves to brood and hates to act, is big with catastrophe.
From this rudimentary and wholly egoistic reflection there came a sense of the existence of a similar nature and similar interests in their fellow-creatures.
A more important problem, and not any less difficult for the political theoriser, is to mark the bounds at which the authority of the law is powerless or mischievous in attempting to control the egoistic or non-social parts of man.
Egoistic impatience had placed false weights and measures in my hands.
He felt an egoistic aversion to the joyless sons of man.
This is the peculiar merit and efficiency of the complex motives that arise from the group spirit; they bring the egoistic self-seeking impulses into the service of society and harmonise them with the altruistic tendencies.
In this way, that is by extension to the group, the egoistic impulses are transmuted, sublimated, and deprived of their individualistic selfish character and effects and are turned to public service.
There are, it seems to me, three distinct policies which may be deliberately pursued, for the securing of the predominance of public or social motives over egoistic motives.
This great spiritual crisis had quite slipped his memory, so egoistic are the best of us at times.
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.
This egoistic conception of history is carried to its most violent extreme by the anarchists.
Egoistic conception of history, carried to its extreme by anarchism, 102 ff.
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.
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.
To borrow Mr. Sidgwick's classification, Holbach is a universalistic and not anegoistic Hedonist.
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.
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.
Lastly, an age reaches a dangerous condition of irony with regard to itself, and the still more dangerous state of cynicism, when a cunning egoistic theory of action is matured that maims and at last destroys the vital strength.
In their aspects and results, in relation to theism and Christian faith, the German egoistic Pantheism and the English sense-idealistic Pantheism strictly coincide.
The German Pantheism has infected the tendencies of English thought and criticism, but, notwithstanding the influence of Hegel at Oxford, has not been reproduced in any English system of egoistic Pantheism.
And has one the right to hope for miracles where the question of happiness or unhappiness in human love is the egoisticpoint at stake?
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.
But into the individuals who really formed its basis, that is, the egoistic individual.
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.
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.
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.
The egoistic individual is the sediment of the dissolved society, the object of immediate certitude, and therefore a natural object.
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.
All the assumptions of this egoisticlife remain in existence outside the sphere of the State, in bourgeois society, but as the peculiarities of bourgeois society.
He gets out of training, and concentrates upon egoistic or erotic broodings.
So long as the egoistic worry of the sick soul guards the door, the expansive confidence of the soul of faith gains no presence.
Fear, on the contrary, and all the contracted and egoisticmodes of thought, are inlets to destruction.
Yes, but what difference did it make if it was simply the blind egoistic life of a multitude of atoms, each striving for ends of its own.
It may be an egoistic demand, and as such it is mean, simply.
Renan forgets, however, that a purely egoistic state, that is to say a purely immoral state, could not continue to exist.
To the incantation, to the material offering, to the sacrifices of the victims succeeded subjective prayer and the subjective offering of love, and the subjective sacrifice of egoistic passion.
This affection has of course its egoistic side, and it is on that side that it results in sterility.
Life is in some sort always sin, for one cannot eat, one cannot even breathe without some measure of affirmation of low and egoistic instincts.
Even the most sceptical and egoistic moral theories admit that the individual cannot live by himself and for himself solely; that egoism involves a narrowing of the sphere of human activity that results in the impoverishment of life.
Sin or moral evil is explicable: first by the antagonism between instinct and reflection; second, by the antagonism between egoistic instincts and altruistic instincts.
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.
It becomes manifest then that the egoistic activities of an organism represent sacrifice followed by compensation.
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.
Those directed towards the maintenance of self are called egoistic activities, while those directed to the maintenance of the race are called phyletic activities.
It is shown above that sacrifices incident to theegoistic activities receive their compensation.
Children are naturally egoists; they will commit all enormities, sometimes, to enlarge their egoistic satisfaction.
They are so many various views of the soul according as we regard it from an intrinsic, an altruistic, or an egoistic standpoint.
Such an egoistic conception is quite foreign to our longitudinal antipodes.
Brown assuming, as the basis of his philosophy of perception, the exploded theory of representative idealism, under the egoistic form.
We have then these three great classes--the Natural Realists, the Absolute Idealists, and the Representative Idealists comprising the Egoistic and Non-Egoistic divisions.
Reid began, by showing that the representative theory, in its finer or egoistic form, as held by Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "egoistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: egocentric; egotistic; egotistical; misanthropic; narcissistic; selfish; subjective; vain
