Quotes About Ego

Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.

Pride falls in love with its own creations, and tries to make them absolute.

When it's not just naïveté, the attempt to rescue someone is often fuelled by vanity and narcissism.

La tragedia del Ser consciente de sí mismo genera sufrimiento, un sufrimiento inevitable que a su vez causa el deseo de una satisfacción egoísta e inmediata, es decir, el deseo de aquello que resulta conveniente.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Reverenciará a su más cruel adversario, si éste se encumbra; desdeñará a su mejor amigo si nadie lo elogia. Su criterio carece de iniciativas. Sus admiraciones son prudentes.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

For how few ambitious men are there, who have got as much fame as they desired, and whose thirst after it has not been as eager in the very height of their reputation, as it was before they became known and eminent among men?

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realisation then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming and about how ideas of forming stem from history.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Dostoyevsky had come to believe that "to love man like oneself, according to the commandment of Christ, is impossible. The law of personality on Earth binds. The ego stands in the way." It is only in the afterlife that the "the law of personality" could be decisively overcome.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Hatred and bigotry, both of which are the bitter fruits of pride, are self-encapsulating prisons, locking the intellect within the constraining confines of the self-centered ego. There is no way out of this prison of pride without the key provided by God-given grace.

If someone had the ability to sit at every table at once, he would hear nothing but good about himself, and yet even such contortions would pale in comparison to those of the others.

The difference between a "winner" and a "whiner" is the sound of the "I." ANONYMOUS

The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture. It is identical with the whole and therefore cannot be contained in it as a part of it

The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture.

You cannot be other than selfish, for you cannot observe, perceive, or be other than from your perspective of self. All points of Consciousness, even one-celled organisms, perceive. And they do so from the ever-changing selfish perspective that they currently hold.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.