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Ego Quotes by Alan Watts
- The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently…
- Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise…
- The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego
- The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego…
- To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.
- The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
- The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always…
- I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
- One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is…
- Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are…
More Ego Quotes
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this… — Afrika Bambaataa
- A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to… — Roseanne Barr
- The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. — David Beckham
- If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
- But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They… — Anna Benson
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant
- You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra
- Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno