Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychology, egoistic feeling or emotion.
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- noun
Self-awareness ; knowledge or familiarity of oneself. - noun Self-centredness,
egotism .
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Examples
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If we fail often in this self-feeling, in this duty to love our neighbor as ourself, to treat all humans as means and not ends, well at least the great amongst us, whether Jesus or Socrates, have told us again and again that we are all one.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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The great philosophers, the great prophets, one by one, have extended the circle of self-feeling out -- have expanded the circle of compassion from kin, to tribe, to creed, and ultimately to all of humanity.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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The great philosophers, the great prophets, one by one, have extended the circle of self-feeling out -- have expanded the circle of compassion from kin, to tribe, to creed, and ultimately to all of humanity.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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If we fail often in this self-feeling, in this duty to love our neighbor as ourself, to treat all humans as means and not ends, well at least the great amongst us, whether Jesus or Socrates, have told us again and again that we are all one.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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If we fail often in this self-feeling, in this duty to love our neighbor as ourself, to treat all humans as means and not ends, well at least the great amongst us, whether Jesus or Socrates, have told us again and again that we are all one.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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The great philosophers, the great prophets, one by one, have extended the circle of self-feeling out -- have expanded the circle of compassion from kin, to tribe, to creed, and ultimately to all of humanity.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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If we fail often in this self-feeling, in this duty to love our neighbor as ourself, to treat all humans as means and not ends, well at least the great amongst us, whether Jesus or Socrates, have told us again and again that we are all one.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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The great philosophers, the great prophets, one by one, have extended the circle of self-feeling out -- have expanded the circle of compassion from kin, to tribe, to creed, and ultimately to all of humanity.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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"If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity."
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In his sublime self-feeling the difference between myself and the attendant seemed to him as nothing.
Dracula 2003
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