The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Your egoist, like the solitary beasts, lives only for himself; your altruist declares that helives only for others; for either there may be success or failure but for neither can there betragedy. For even if the altruist meets nothing but ingratitude, what has he to complain of?His premises abolish his grounds of complaint. But both egoist and altruist arephilosophical abstractions. The human being by nature and necessity is neither egoist noraltruist...