If we live in a plebeianized world, it is because so many human beings have busied themselves making a world fir only for plebeians to live in. - R. W. K. Paterson

A world in to whose settled meaning he [the egoist] had committed himself would be a world to which he had alienated himself. His self-possession would be at an end, for the world which he had begun by possessing would at last have come to possess him.

Far from settling his interests on a single, fixed and final object, the nihilistic egoist preserves himself in a constant state of flux and dissolution, perpetually reviewing and modifying the heterogeneous objectives which he provisionally sets for himself.

The version of reality a man adopts will depend largely on his values.