Quotes About Ego

when it comes to money, delusions that you're better than everybody else can kill you.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

No doubt arrogance will produce submission; and there are men who take other men at the price those other men put upon themselves.

it's a theory advanced by two French philosophers who are also psychologists, they hold that we do not have a single soul but a confederation of souls guided by a ruling ego, and every now and then this ruling ego changes, so that although we establish a norm it isn't a stable norm, but a variable one.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble, his blessings.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.

Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.

That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now...

Este hombre tal vez sea muy inteligente, pero, desde luego, es insufriblemente engreído».

To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Emotionally we have many problems, but these problems are not actual problems; they are something created; they are problems pointed out by our self-centered ideas or views.

Luke's eyes were wild. He was a little taller than me, but not quite as heavy. A lot of girls liked him because he was good looking with dark wavy hair. Not many guys liked him because all he cared about was himself.

Where id is, there shall ego be

The ego is not master in its own house.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id , a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world).

I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world.