selfishness and altruism
- from The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), Oscar Wilde:
- virtue of selfishness, Ayn Rand
linked mentions for "selfishness and altruism":
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selfishness as a strategy
The healthiest way to look at selfishness is that it’s a necessary strategy when you’re struggling. Apparently humans are wired to take care of
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exaggerated altruistic virtues
Altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like are admirable, though misdirected intentions — degrade and demoralise … It is much more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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self-interest versus the common good
those two impulses are mutually exclusive, although certain circumstances allow them to appear complementary extreme self-interest (selfishness,
The healthiest way to look at selfishness is that it’s a necessary strategy when you’re struggling. Apparently humans are wired to take care of
Altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like are admirable, though misdirected intentions — degrade and demoralise … It is much more
Man’s original virtue is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are
When man has realised Individualism, he will also realise sympathy and exercise it freely and spontaneously. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with
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
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
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
those two impulses are mutually exclusive, although certain circumstances allow them to appear complementary extreme self-interest (selfishness,