Ego Quotes

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego f...

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

All true love and all sacrifice arein their essence Nature’s contradiction of the primary egoism andi...

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

Educated people, of course, know that perception, cognition, language, and emotion are rooted in the...

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct...

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see .....

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominan...

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is lif...

Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is th...

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent...

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and wi...

Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we a...

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with ou...

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-g...

Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, sp...

The square root of I is I.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the o...

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are...

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what ...

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to a...

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine...

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, importan...

He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed conv...

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themsel...

Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ec...

Egotism fears its own self.

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them;...

I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I k...

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensu...

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to ...

For the "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must neve...

Your ego is your strictest judge.

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is n...

A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to ...

Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But ...

All that which proceeds from man’s independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man’s depen...

The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands abo...

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable ego...

I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I’ve...

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It i...

...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the ...

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, y...

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to ...

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously."Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit ...

sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyear...

There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my ...

It’s natural to think of one’s own life as a novel (or a movie or a play), and within that narrative...

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego...

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it...

Doffing the ego'ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 ...

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tric...

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essenc...

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what ...

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not ju...

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come th...

the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is...

When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion...

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “probl...

Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigi...

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and ...

Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer soci...

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ...

What you usually refer to when you say “I” is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, t...

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigid...

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is no...

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with ...

In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illu...

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from th...

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through thi...

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't f...

So whenever that brittle voice of dissatisfaction emerges within me, I can say "Ah, my ego! There yo...

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you fe...

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principl...

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obvio...

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could ...

Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for ...

My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly ...

Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human,...

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You...

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But...

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection o...

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distor...