Source: Brother Odd
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).
“self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
“Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge.”
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Context: Death makes us strangers to ourselves... Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge. More than likely you would simply end up dead as well.
“We are ready to sacrifice our true, transitory self for the imaginary eternal self we are building”
Section 47
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience—the knowledge that our mighty deeds will come to the ears of our contemporaries or "of those that are to be." We are ready to sacrifice our true, transitory self for the imaginary eternal self we are building up, by our heroic deeds, in the opinion and imagination of others.
Source: Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.”
Source: The Forge of God (1987), Chapter 52 (p. 352)
“The traditional male hero is about self-sacrifice, not self-actualization.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 97
