| And the younger the child is, the more concerned he is with fulfilling egoistic desires. |
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| Since men are rational and egoistic, endowed with the right of property, the composition of output should be determined by consumer sovereignty. |
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| Some people brag to call attention to themselves, causing others to believe that the egoistic person has a lot of self-respect. |
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| So as long as this egoistic propaganda is kept up, India will continue to get the better of any encounters in the battlefield. |
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| The latter symbolizes that egoistic force of maya which deludes individuals and keeps them from knowing their innate nature as god. |
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| For the scientific democrats the most salient fact of American life during the Gilded Age was the spread of egoistic and self-seeking behavior. |
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| They're nice sometimes, but most of the time they just act like egoistic, arrogant rich kids. |
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| Everything we experience is normally experienced from an egoistic or narcissistic point of view. |
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| To most people he seemed full of exuberant vitality, talkative, jovial and robustious, egoistic, credulous, and boastful. |
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| Monstrous, abject vice by which a man is transformed into a loathsome, cruel, egoistic reptile. |
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| Not surprisingly, Shaftesbury also rejects the kind of egoistic psychology he finds in Hobbes. |
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| The more he does the more he breads pride and becomes egoistic and self-conscious. |
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| In some regions pooling resources and projects is a better way out to development than egoistic national policy considerations. |
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| On the other hand, when the spark disappears we feel separation, and the egoistic and rapacious aspects of our nature appear. |
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| We are coming from the cold of Yalta, but the climate in Europe is becoming chilly and egoistic. |
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| You may have to face egoistic people who throw rank to achieve their ends. |
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| All of these Great Powers are egoistic, more or less blinkered, with governments chiefly bent upon surviving a few more years. |
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| Some scholars have even argued that an Epicurean egoistic hedonism, however foresighted it may be, must logically be self-defeating. |
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| Yoga is a social movement, for it seeks to awaken and to transform one human being at a time from the ordinary egoistic state. |
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| We are carrying out genetics studies and investigating which brain processes underpin altruistic and egoistic behaviour. |
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| The ability to serve others is gained only by those who are egoistic enough to attend in a capable way to their own business. |
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| A fixation on the former leads to crude, mechanistic Freudianism, the latter to egoistic and naive assertions of self-sufficiency. |
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| Personal conversion and sanctification imply a spirituality of communio, which means to make room for the other and to withstand the egoistic temptations of competition, careerism, distrust and jealousy. |
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| There are many competing egoistic hypotheses. |
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| We feed one another with our love and compassion, helping one another to be who we truly are, conscious, universal beings, or we poison one another with our egoistic tendencies. |
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| Without a certain deference to the beyond, human virtue would almost always degenerate into self-serving and short-sighted opportunism, would fall prey to vanity and egoistic isolation, to nothingness. |
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| I learned quite rapidly that music works very well when it's not egoistic. |
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| Thus there is nothing immoral in seeking one's own interest first, since in the final analysis the egoistic action of each leads, as if by accident, to the interest of all. |
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| In philosophy I am a Cyrenaic or egoistic hedonist, and regard the pleasure of the moment as the only possible motive of action. |
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| Mona, on the other hand, exploits Nuri largely for egoistic satisfaction though she is initially simply intrigued by his engrossment with her. |
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