"Master, when you 'give', do you then like it?"
"Yes son, I do."
"But then you'd get something out of it! That is not altruism but egoism!"
"Indeed. So it is. Am I telling you a secret in that I like being happy and in harmony with Nature, that I therefore seek to know-, and practise the Way? Altruism just IS not, it does not exist. A.Rand called it a virtue to be selfish. True word is that only egoism exists, as Tietjens shows. Even the most self-denying act of bravery, giving one's life for others, it is all egoistically based. And read Spencer, Wells and others."
"But they never told us so Master, including you."
"There are many things that we tell not. It is better to let you find the truth at the proper times."
"But I did not so find it!"
"Yes you did. Recall your first question of just now."
"Master, ... I see."