Egotists are generally clever people, and no clever people like being drawn out, while no egotists like to be perceived to be egotists.
Egotists are not curious; the only thing which interests them in the mind of a fellow-creature, is in the domain of utility.
Come now," said he brusquely, "you remember our stipulations; we are two egotists who have made a bargain with each other.
The absurdity is, indeed, ludicrous, if we are thinking of real things and of the goods and evils of experience; but egotists never think of that; what they always think of is the picture of those realities in their imagination.
Thus it is from Kant, directly or indirectly, that the German egotists draw the conviction which is their most tragic error.
The respect which Hegel and Nietzsche have for those sophisms becomes intelligible when we remember what imperturbable egotists they were.
A great riot took place when an attempt was made by some fastidious and exclusive egotists to introduce partitions which should partially divide one portion of these receptacles into individual compartments.
Egotist as Wilde was, his was not the expansive egotism which, in spreading its wings to invite admiration, seeks to eclipse and to shut out its fellow egotists from their own little place in the sun.
Not many egotists of my acquaintance, especially literary egotists, write letters like that I have quoted, in which there is no word of himself, or of his own work, but only of his friend.
Most egotists are eager only for flattery and applause.
I shall close this Paper with a Remark upon such as are Egotists in Conversation: These are generally the vain or shallow part of Mankind, People being naturally full of themselves when they have nothing else in them.
Nature knows how to convert evil to good; Nature utilises misers, fanatics, showmen, egotists to accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that.
Egotists and cowards always have a reason for everything Eternally condemned to kill each other in order to live God forgive the timid and the prattler!
Formerly the hunters after pensions, the egotistswho wanted to snap up everything and leave nothing for the people, were called nobles; now it is the bourgeois trained by the Jesuits.
I want all the comfort I can get; and I could get far more in a world of clear-seeing, secularegotists than I can in this mixed mess of superstitious, sentimental idealists which we choose to call civilized society!
We're all egotists of course; but most of us are the common or garden variety, and have an occasional suspicion that we're pretty selfish and intolerant and vain.
Sir Thomas is one of the greatest egotists of literature--to use a necessary but an unpopular and a misleading epithet.
The thirty egotists came ashore, but one at a time, and dead; one breathed still.
The paralyzed sat like heaps of wet rags, the bewildered ones ran to and fro, and saw the thirtyegotists put off, but made no attempt to join them: only kept running to and fro, and wringing their hands.
I may as well take this opportunity of saying that these two egotists carried out the promise of their respective letters.
There are egotists who charge for tuition, but she would teach her dear niece gratis.
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