Famous quotes containing the word selfish:
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)