Egoism [noun]

Ethical egoism – which says that the ethical thing is that which brings about the greatest happiness for oneself – is a relevant ethical theory in this situation.

He spoke continually of himself, indeed, but still in enigmas; a veiled prophet of egoism.

What delicate comprehension of everything, what a loving heart, what a complete absence of egoism!

He has attained to annihilating himself, his hateful ego; but I too; it's not from egoism, I pray not.

My sufferings, my repugnance, my feelings, all my egoism—for I know that I am an egoist—ought to be sacrificed to the family.

And when, with cynical egoism, they have collected their unnumbered dollars, what do they do with them?

They are not to be swept away by the bluff, the egoism of what claims to be the only "Expert Scholarship."

But I am not acting thus from egoism: an egoist would find it easier-268- and smoother not to raise this question at all.

I ought not to care about small annoyances, and it is chiefly egoism that makes them annoyances.

This reasoning, if one can call by so deliberate a word these leaping conclusions, was not any act of reflecting egoism.