How to pronounce“selfish”in English
my compassion, my caring. I got to try to get in their head and figure out what's going on with them and and and and maybe help them. And I think we want to do that, but we also have
selfish impulses that keep us from doing so. But if you've ever talked to a chatbot, there's none of that. And this has individual implications, but also broader social implications. We don't
want to live in a world where everybody everyone's selfish urges are satisfied and nobody really has
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Definitions of “selfish”
Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
““We all have both a selfish separate self, and an Inner Being that is One with the Universal Spirit. In this sense, every human has a sort of ‘split personality’. We are all kind of what you call ‘schitzy’ with these two sides, these two people living within us. And they are in total opposition. The free will dictates which of these two sides will have its way in our life, at every given moment.””
Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.
“Take warning by my fate, and shun that flowery and bewitching path; for in its labyrinths the good, the gentle, the kind-hearted, and the benevolent, are too often lost; while the sordid and the selfish scarcely so much as run a hazard.”
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