The Human Ego Quotes

#1. Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war.

Debasish Mridha

#2. the natural condition of the human ego: that it is empty, painful, busy and fragile.

Timothy J. Keller

#3. The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#4. A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Muhammad Iqbal

#5. No one has written adequately of what happens when enough of the body's naked surface is pressed against another human being's. It is a slow dismantling of ego, a suspension of the instinct to distinguish Me from Not Me.

Kenji Yoshino

#6. Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. The ego has been a fatality both for the human self and for God. 1

[1 - This was once revealed to me in a dream.]

Nicolas Berdyaev

#8. A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#9. Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!
He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phantom came to me from my own fire and ashes, that is the truth! It did not come from the 'beyond'!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.

Richard Rohr

#11. Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Carl Jung

#12. Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.

Susan Howatch

#13. Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love.

Human Angels

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

Ayn Rand

#15. I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.

Paul Watson

#16. The way the normal human ego tries to fill its emptiness and deal with its discomfort is by comparing itself to other people. All the time.

Timothy Keller

#17. The human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Jose Saramago

#18. Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

Idries Shah

#19. If you want to appeal to someone's ego, treat them as the most important person you have ever met. If you want to appeal to someone's soul, approach and interact with them in total love and acceptance.

Frank Healy

#20. Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

Willa Cather

#21. Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.

Andrew Weil

#22. I think that in fact by taking on the persona of a human being, you begin to realise that it is all ego, and that beneath that ego is something else, and that something else is a tranquil, nonentity, that we are simply drops of the sea, that we belong to each other.

George Ogilvie

#23. The human Soul will only find its Light,
when the Ego gives its permission.

C.C. Campbell

#24. The total acceptance of ourselves in the present moment without judging things that happen, letting things happen as they happen, is the final act that frees us from the ego: this is the unconditional surrender of the ego to the Higher Self.

Human Angels

#25. Ego is the world's worst narcotic

Mekael Shane

#26. Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Romeo Dallaire

#27. Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism
that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

Max Stirner

#28. We lose in order to find. We forget in order to remember. We die a death in the ego in order to be reborn in the Oneness, until the end of all our duality, until we become Human Angels: aware, compassionate messengers of Love in service to the Oneness.

Human Angels

#29. Either way, the vulnerable human ego is protected. Protected from the corrupting influence of praise. Protected from the corrosive effects of shame.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#30. But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

C. G. Jung

#31. Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.

Silvano Arieti

#32. The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system ...

Jacqueline Ripstein

#33. I remain too impressed with Freud's vision of the human animal's compromise with existence
the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves
to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.

Stanley Cavell

#34. What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!

Dada Bhagwan

#35. perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

Jacob M. Held

#36. She liked the idea of a place belonging to the cows, no ownership of human ego.

Aporva Kala

#37. Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.

Eckhart Tolle

#38. Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

Pat Riley

#39. Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion.

David Richo

#40. Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#41. Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!

Soumya V.

#42. My enlightenment comes from the lucid awareness of my extinction not the dream of my eternal ego.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#43. We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

F. Sionil Jose

#44. If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

Terence McKenna

#45. Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Eckhart Tolle

#46. The ego is the product of imagination. It is how a human being sees himself or herself. It makes humans demand special status in nature and culture. Nature does not care for this self-image of human beings. Culture, which is a man-made creation, attempts to accommodate it.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#47. The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Rumi

#48. The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all ... It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well ... you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.

Bob Buford

#49. Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.

Dada Bhagwan

#50. Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again.

Cintra Wilson

#51. Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Max Planck

#52. These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

Ram Dass

#53. Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

Terence McKenna

#54. I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation.

Eckhart Tolle

#55. Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.

Frederick Lenz

#56. When we live in the ego, we are human. When we live in the Awareness of the Oneness, we are Human Angels

Human Angels

#57. Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged - temporarily - but your heart and soul, the true self, will suffer the long term affects of karma's justifiable sting.

T.F. Hodge

#58. Human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind.

Sigmund Freud

#59. The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

Dan Brown

#60. Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.

A.S. Byatt

#61. Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.

Oli Anderson

#62. The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.

Human Angels

#63. When your ego surrenders to the Higher Self, you become a Human Angel: a radiating center of Light, an active and conscious part of the Uni-versal project of Love.

Human Angels

#64. It takes more courage to be yourself than to live in the prison of ego with feelings of guilt. It takes a lot more courage to be happy than to be unhappy.

Human Angels

#65. The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

Criss Jami