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Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you. So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Jour
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
C.S. Lewis
Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness.
Roger M'Ckuen
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Lucille S. Harper
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
Carl Gustav Jung
Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action.
Suzanne Mayo Frindt
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the various levels of the self, and the ego accepts necessary information and data from inner portions of the personality without question. Its position in fact depends in a large manner upon this unquestioning acceptance of inner data. The ego, in other words, the
Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks: The E
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
Marianne Moore
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
E. M. Cioran
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
Dean Martin
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold Bennett
Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann von Goethe
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens
