| 1590 | The just man does not harm his enemies, but benefits everyone [Plato] |
| 90 | All altruism is an extension of self-love [Aristotle] |
| 3553 | Stoic morality says that one's own happiness will lead to impartiality [Stoic school, by Annas] |
| 6244 | Human nature seems incapable of universal malice, except what results from self-love [Hutcheson] |
| 3926 | The human heart has a natural concern for public good [Hume] |
| 3717 | Reverence is awareness of a value which demolishes my self-love [Kant] |
| 3720 | We may claim noble motives, but we cannot penetrate our secret impulses [Kant] |
| 4185 | Altruistic people make less distinction than usual between themselves and others [Schopenhauer] |
| 14831 | No one has ever done anything that was entirely for other people [Nietzsche] |
| 7205 | Altruism is praised by the egoism of the weak, who want everyone to be looked after [Nietzsche] |
| 4505 | How can it be that I should prefer my neighbour to myself, but he should prefer me to himself? [Nietzsche] |
| 5316 | We undermine altruism by rewarding it, but we reward it to encourage it [Wilson,EO] |
| 5318 | Pure hard-core altruism based on kin selection is the enemy of civilisation [Wilson,EO] |
| 3263 | If our own life lacks meaning, devotion to others won't give it meaning [Nagel] |
| 21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
| 9781 | Tolerance and love are strategies to avoid encountering our neighbours [Zizek] |