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Egocentric Quotes

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. Erich Fromm
Idries Shah quote: "An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't..."
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. Idries Shah
Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration of consciousness by the use of plants or substances is somehow wrong, onanistic, and perversely antisocial. I will argue that suppression of shamanic gnosis, with its reliance and insistence on ecstatic dissolution of the ego, has robbed us of life’s meaning and made us enemies of the planet, of ourselves, and our grandchildren. We... Terence McKenna
Stephen King quote: "kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks..."
kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings Stephen King
The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism. Milan Kundera
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved for the dullard. It is the very opposite of creation, which is pla? The part of me which was given up to work, which enabled my wife and child to live in the manner which they unthinkingly demanded, this part of me which kept the wheel turning - a completely fatuous, ego-centric notion! - was the least part of me. I gave nothing to the world in fulfilling the... Henry Miller
Pat Conroy quote: "I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish,..."
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. Pat Conroy
Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation. Tom Robbins
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler. Fulton J. Sheen
Katharine Hepburn quote: "It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a..."
It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. Katharine Hepburn
All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. Andrea Corr
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along. Nigel Kennedy
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human. Bo Bennett

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