Full Idea
Never has a man done anything that was only for others and without any personal motivation. …How could the ego act without ego?
Gist of Idea
No one has ever done anything that was entirely for other people
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 133)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.92
A Reaction
This is only a denial of the purest of 'pure' altruism. It is hard to imagine anyone performing an altruistic action which permanently shamed the reputationof its performer - though it might be possible in a nicely contrived fiction.