Quotes About Ego

In letting God sit in judgment they judge themselves; in glorifying God they glorify themselves.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

Whatever they may think and say about their egoism, the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.

What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal .

We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.

A man's stomach is the reason he does not easily take himself for a God.

Die Forderung, geliebt zu werden, ist die größte der Anmaßungen.

In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests:

aku telah melakukannya--kata ingatanku. aku tidak mungkin telah melakukannya--kata kesombonganku dan tetap tidak tergoyahkan. akhirnya--ingatanku menyerah

Whom do you call Bad?-Him who always wants to put others to shame.

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

Those who inflate themselves are cursed When pricked by a small pin to burst.

I am by far the most terrible human being that has existed so far; this does not preclude the possibility that I shall be the most beneficial.

taught us to be aware of ourselves as isolated egos existing "inside" our bodies; it has led us to set a higher value on mental than manual work; it has enabled huge industries to sell products – especially to women – that would make us owners of the "ideal body"; it has kept doctors from seriously considering the psychological dimensions of illness, and psychotherapists from dealing with their patients' bodies.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.

The physical theory suffers from the same affect as humanism; it attempts to live on its own fat and breathe the very air which it has already exhaled from its scientific lungs.

Fulton J. Sheen "Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked." ? Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

Carnal love, despite its seeming intimacy, often can become an exchange of egotisms. The ego is projected onto the other person and what is loved is not the other person, but the pleasure the other person gives.