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The ego is not master in its own house.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I’m one of seven kids. That’ll keep your ego in check.