"Egocentric" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the windows of the senses? Thought, convention, self-interest.... We see the narrow world our windows show us not in itself, but in relation to our own needs, moods, and preferences ... for the universe of the natural man is strictly egocentric.... Unless we happen to be artists—and then but rarely—we never know the "thing seen" in its purity; never from birth to death, look at it with disinterested eyes.... It is disinterestedness, the saint's and poet's ...
— Potterism - A Tragi-Farcical Tract • Rose Macaulay
... in turning out men with the correct attitude towards their work. It has also turned out a fair number of self-centered, egocentric horrors." ...
— The K-Factor • Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey) |
