In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

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.

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.