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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
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But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
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John Buchanan Robinson
Born:
May 23, 1846
Died:
January 28, 1933
(aged 86)
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