Selflessness (n.) was first named a virtue by two feuding chieftains admiring the mediator who made them prosper — they saw his condition hadn't changed and concluded he sought no benefit.
Selflessness (n.) has been the name for fleeing and hating one's ego and living in others — but a man who hates himself is only rescuing himself from himself in others; let them beware.
Selflessness (n.) is not what makes a deed good; your self should be in the deed as the mother is in the child.
Selflessness (n.) is what the world-weary cowards wished for themselves — with good reason.
Selflessness (n.) preached by Christianity, actually enhanced the egoism of the individual to the extreme — to individual immortality.
Selflessness (n.) like egoism, is a fiction for the common people — the rest of what happens in the organism gives the lie to the little scrap of 'virtue' radically.
Selflessness (n.) man's greatest so far: lavishing all beauty and sublimity on things, then hiding from himself that it was he who created what he worshipped.
Selflessness (n.) the gospel of the lowly, is upheld by ruling classes of every era — it keeps down rivalry and ressentiment and deifies for the ruled their being slaves.