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One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essa
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
H. Ross Perot
What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
Epictetus
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
Diana Black
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking is often regarded as an extension of the ego. Clever children in school base their egos on being clever and on being right all the time. They dislike group work because they cannot then show the rest of the class where the good idea originated. When the ego and thinking are treated as the same thing there is a reluctance to be wrong and a need to defend a point of view rather than to explore the situation. A person should be able to treat his thinking much as a tennis player treats his strokes: he should be able to walk off the court complaining that his backhand was not working very well on that occasion or that it required more practice. This new meta-system is very much in favour of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.ISBN 0851171257 Copyright
Edward De Bono, The Happiness Pu
The great corrupter of public man is the ego....Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson, from a speech to t
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
George V. Higgins
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield
oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem?
Leo Tolstoy
In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.
Edgar Cayce
An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
Ambrose Bierce
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.Enemies of Promise is Connolly's autobiography where he attempted to explain why he failed to produce the literary masterpiece which he and others believed he should have been capable of writing.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promi
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nevell Bovee
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
Agnes Repplier
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.
Dorothee Sölle, The Silent Cry:
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
George Eliot
