Who said “There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself,…”?

“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

“If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.”

“The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.”

“Mastery passes often for egotism.”

“Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.”

“Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.”

“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”

“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”

“Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.”

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”

“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.”