2166 | We should behave well even if invisible, for the health of the mind [Plato] |
1636 | Wickedness is an illness of the soul [Plato] |
3025 | For a Cyrenaic no one is of equal importance to himself [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
88 | Nobody would choose all the good things in world, if the price was loss of identity [Aristotle] |
91 | A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best [Aristotle] |
5856 | Self-interest is a relative good, but nobility an absolute good [Aristotle] |
3031 | The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius] |
1769 | Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods [Diog. Laertius] |
4851 | Reason demands nothing contrary to nature, and so it demands self-love [Spinoza] |
17220 | Self-satisfaction is the highest thing for which we can hope [Spinoza] |
6235 | Self-interest is not intrinsically good, but its absence is evil, as public good needs it [Shaftesbury] |
3929 | No moral theory is of any use if it doesn't serve the interests of the individual concerned [Hume] |
23059 | Self-interest is not rational, if the self is just a succession of memories and behaviour [Sidgwick, by Gray] |
2885 | The noble soul has reverence for itself [Nietzsche] |
20248 | People do nothing for their real ego, but only for a phantom ego created by other people [Nietzsche] |
3259 | Nietzsche rejects impersonal morality, and asserts the idea of living well [Nietzsche, by Nagel] |
4409 | Only the decline of aristocratic morality led to concerns about "egoism" [Nietzsche] |
18327 | A wholly altruistic morality, with no egoism, is a thoroughly bad thing [Nietzsche] |
4517 | Egoism is inescapable, and when it grows weak, the power of love also grows weak [Nietzsche] |
4518 | The question about egoism is: what kind of ego? since not all egos are equal [Nietzsche] |
4519 | The ego is only a fiction, and doesn't exist at all [Nietzsche] |
23865 | Morality would improve if people could pursue private interests [Weil] |
23695 | Good actions can never be justified by the good they brings to their agent [Foot] |
9241 | Loving oneself is not a failing, but is essential to a successful life [Frankfurt] |
6704 | Egoism submits to desires, but cannot help form them [Graham] |
9761 | Personal concern for one's own self widens out into concern for the impersonal [Korsgaard] |