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. 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
   
2. self-interest versus the common good
   those two impulses are mutually exclusive, although certain circumstances allow them to appear complementary extreme self-interest (selfishness,
   
3. 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
   
4. 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