Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason and other Works on the Theory of Ethics (1909) Tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, p. 165.

All the inclinations together (which can be reduced to a tolerable system, in which case their satisfaction is called happiness) constitutes self-regard, (solipsismus). This is either the self-love that consists in an excessive fondness for oneself (philautia), or satisfaction with oneself (arrogantia). The former is called particularly selfishness; the latter self-conceit.

— Immanuel Kant on Solipsism

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Immanuel Kant

About Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804), born Emanuel Kant, was a German philosopher.