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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Wayne Dyer

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the…

— Sigmund Freud

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

— Eckhart Tolle

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

— Max Planck

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

— Alan Watts

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

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Shunryu Suzuki

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

— Timothy Freke

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.

— John O'Donohue