Analogies Quote by Sigmund Freud

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

— Eckhart Tolle

The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But…

— Thomas Metzinger

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

— Max Planck

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

— Shunryu Suzuki

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

— Frederick Lenz

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

— Alan Watts

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

— Martin Buber

“There is a marvelous ambiguity to the ego: on the one hand it is an ordinary part of the world, one of many things…

— Robert Sokolowski

Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of…

— Adyashanti

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this…

— Terry Eagleton

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

— Wayne Dyer

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.

— Wei Wu Wei