Egotism Quote by Wallace Stevens

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ego does not experience happiness or misery. It does not enjoy sex either. It is just the egoism it does that, ‘I enjoyed sex!’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“It is recognised now that Freud never gave proper attention, even in man, to growth of the ego or self: 'the impulse to master,…

— Betty Friedan

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

— Robert Frost

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

— Robert E. Ornstein

“Freud was the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated…

— Dan Wilbur

When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Alan Watts

“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’ psychological causes…

— Terry Eagleton

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is…

— Simone Weil

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

— Max Planck

Egotism is the glue with which you get stuck in yourself

— Dan Post