Altruism (n.) is that erroneous notion upon which a false ethics is erected, buttressed by religion and mythological monsters whose shadow falls across even physics and the entire perception of the world.
The Altruism (n.) is more fabulous than the phoenix: how could the ego act without the ego?
Altruism (n.) is a moral fashion: Epictetus, striving with all his might for his ego, would by today's lights be downright immoral — and might reply: 'If you are so boring or ugly an object to yourself, by all means think of others more!'
Altruism (n.) is the virtue of small people — "for your neighbor"; creators should unlearn "for" and "in order" and "because," for their work is their neighbor.
Altruism (n.) is the moral fig leaf over 'I don't know how to find my own advantage any more': people are done for when they become altruistic.
Altruism (n.) is at bottom the judgment "I am not worth much" — a physiological feeling of impotence translated into morality.
Altruism (n.) as a cult is a specific form of egoism that regularly appears under certain physiological conditions.
Altruism (n.) is the most mendacious form of egoism — the most sentimental egoism.
Altruism (n.) of the Christian kind is the mass-egoism of the weak, which divines that if all care for one another each will be preserved as long as possible.
Altruism (n.) is the crazy-seeming idea that I should value your welfare above mine while you value mine above yours; it means the individual is of little account but all together are of great account — training in a perspective that makes it impossible to see oneself.
Altruism (n.) marks the herd: if you hear its moral imperative within you, you belong to the herd; if you feel your danger lies in selfless actions, you do not.
Altruism (n.) is man's original condition, more than any animal's — hence his slow childhood, his lofty culture, and his extraordinary, ultimate kind of egoism; beasts of prey are far more individual.
Altruism (n.) is, when genuine, an instinct for creating at least a secondary value for oneself in the service of other egoisms; usually it is only a detour to preserving one's own feeling of vitality.
Altruism (n.) is what the great man's enlarged experience of himself as cause and will is mistaken for, when he feels his power over a people.
Altruism (n.) has cruelty for its mother.
Altruism (n.) is praised universally out of the egoism of the weak: the instinct that each is safest if everyone looks after everyone.
Altruism (n.) gains ascendancy from feeling ill-constituted: at bottom the value judgement 'I am not worth much' — a physiological feeling of powerlessness.