Quotes About Ego

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied.

your lip, says he. You've put on considerable many frills since I been away. I'll take you down

It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

A happy person with decent self-esteem wouldn't bother to have credentials as good as mine.

On the other hand, you're a human--you should understand self-obsession.

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me. (...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

It is indeed in no way settled that the "self" is ever determinable by means of a representation of the ego. Instead, it must be acknowledged that selfhood first arises out of the grounding of Da-sein, a grounding that is carried out as an appropriation of the belonging to the call. Accordingly, the openness and grounding of the self arise out of, and as, the truth of beyng

White supremacy can feed their egos but not their stomachs.

You must come to see that a man may be self-centered in his self-denial and self-righteous in his self-sacrifice. His generosity may feed his ego and his piety his pride. Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and martyrdom becomes spiritual pride.

Sometimes she's so stuck up she'd drown in a rainstorm.

The mind is where the ego rules. The soul resides in the heart.