selfishness and altruism

• from The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), Oscar Wilde:
  • exaggerated altruistic virtues
  • original virtue through disobedience
  • selfishness is to make claims upon others
  • perfections charity and conformity
  • sympathy with joy is naturally rare
  • to sympathise with a friend’s success
• virtue of selfishness, Ayn Rand

linked mentions for "selfishness and altruism":

1. self-interest versus the common good

   those two impulses are mutually exclusive, although certain circumstances allow them to appear complementary extreme self-interest (selfishness,

2. exaggerated altruistic virtues

   Altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like are admirable, though misdirected intentions — degrade and demoralise … It is much more

3. original virtue through disobedience

   Man’s original virtue is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are

4. perfections charity and conformity

   There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of

5. selfishness is to make claims upon others

   Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live, always aims at creating around it an absolute

6. sympathy with joy is naturally rare

   When man has realised Individualism, he will also realise sympathy and exercise it freely and spontaneously. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with

7. to sympathise with a friend’s success

   Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true