Quotes About Ego

You cannot become a Buddha unless you kill the Buddha which is dualistically conceived as an object.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

I don't want any description of me to be accurate. I want it to be flattering.

Truth is dead, and everything is relative at best and at worst a matter of the will to power. Nothing is what it appears to be. If truth was once the stated goal of intellectuals, it is now easy to read between their scholarly lines and see the petty egos and the dirty ambitions behind the lofty aspirations for truth. Truth is finally undecidable, as the postmodern philosophers express it. At best, truth is simply the compliment you pay to sentences that you happen to agree with.

When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are "so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.

The age of the Internet, it is said, is the age of the self and the selfie. The world is full of people full of themselves. In such an age, "I post, therefore I am.

Learning is a another name of vanity, It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

Can't a man be satisfied without having to beat everybody at everything?

Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

La sociedad. (...) una lucha entre individuos. Y una lucha en que el ganarla lo supone todo. El ser humano no obedece a nadie.

Men are strange creatures. Can't a man be satisfied without having to beat everybody at everything?

But the true shape of love lies where one closes one's eyes to the embarrassment of it, and as if jumping into surging waves, screams the words of love. In truth, one can only stay silent if one's love is weak. It's egotistical. They're calculating something. They are quivering in fear about the responsibility that will come later.

?lim ola?anüstüdür ancak pervas?zca davran?p ermi?li?iyle gösteri? yapmak korkakl?kt?r.

Every narcissist is a hero and a legend in his own mind.

Haters need to see you go down to lift themselves up.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight.

He must increase, but I must decrease.