Quotes About Ego

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

But I don't think of you. (Howard Roark)

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he's honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he's great in the eyes of others.

The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

I will not die, it's the world that will end. paraphrase of unknown philosopher

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self.

Only if one feels immensely important she had told him, can one feel truly light.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them." "I feel that others live up to me, if they want me...

Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.

when you put your ego aside, you are more likely to leave a Valley sooner.

Your ego can make you arrogant on the Peak, and fearful in the Valley. It keeps you from seeing what is real. Your ego distorts the truth.

Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Each time something contingent and impermanent is raised to the status of something necessary and permanent, a devil is created. Whether it be an ego, a nation-state, or a religious belief, the result is the same. The distortion severs such things from their embeddedness in the complexities, fluidities, and ambiguities of the world and make them appear as simple, fixed, and unambiguous entities with the power to condemn or save us.

Why even dictate? Well, like a lot of other dictators, there's one man's opinion I value above all others. Mine.