“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”
Frank Leahy
“The world is polluted with the filth of egotism, suffering in pain. This filth sticks to them because of their love of duality. This filth of egotism cannot be washed away, even by taking cleansing baths at hundreds of sacred shrines.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
Oscar Wilde
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
