Quotes by Ego My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus. Herbie Mann egofocusenough Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun. Friedrich Nietzsche hatefulegomen I would prefer not to. Herman Melville ego Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics. Hilary Duff rumorgossipego I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.) Herman Melville egonamesfather ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion. Hermann Hesse breathingegoheaven I am not here for me Holly Near egomovementvoice To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related. Henry Miller egochangeself But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Haruki Murakami abyssintenseego I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts. Friedrich Nietzsche stringsconceptsego The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego. Hubert Selby, Jr. egoartistresponsibility When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage. Henry Rollins egogivingpeople Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality. Frederick Lenz egoperfectionself "Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it. Friedrich Nietzsche egobelieveart Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel. Henry Rollins egoneedsthinking ...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'. Huston Smith titlesegomemories Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray. Ibn Ata Allah devilsupportego Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego. Igor Babailov portraitsegopeople When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously. Ice T egobelievefirsts Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room. Ilona Andrews egoairrooms«2122232425262728293031»
