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Ego Quotes by Carl Jung
- The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.
- Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here…
- The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the…
- The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
- Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose…
- 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…
- The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality,…
- The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self…
- Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to…
- Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is…
- Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate…
- The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To…
- Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal…
- Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....
- The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche…
- The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
- Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
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