Adjuster gives origin to unselfish interest in welfare of others; leads to happiness. [1] Differences in status of races and groups are essential to development of tolerance and altruismo. [2] Every human being very early experiences something of a conflict between his self-seeking and his altruistic impulses. [3]
Fire was a great civilizer, providing man with his first means of being altruistic without loss by enabling him to give live coals to a neighbor without depriving himself. [4] Altruism is learned in one’s family. [5] It is more blessed to give than to receive. [6] Noble soul is generous among the grasping. [7] Only religion lastingly increases altruism. [8] Only a well-unified personality can arbitrate multiform contentions regarding the ego cravings and altruism. [9] Overdeveloped altruism may seriously injure the self. [10] Reason, morality, and religion necessary for altruism. [11] Selflessness is inherent in parental love. [12]
Is altruism—service of one’s fellows—desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality. Is unselfishness—the spirit of self-forgetfulness—desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. [13] It is neither tenderness nor altruism to bestow futile sympathy upon degenerated human beings, unsalvable abnormal and inferior mortals. [14]
Unselfishness is the badge of human greatness. [15] Havona creatures are unselfish, but they never gained such levels of experience by the magnificent conquest of a belligerent self. [16] There is no Latin word for altruism. [17] Unselfishness, aside from parental instinct, is not altogether natural; other persons are not naturally loved. [18]