The ego is a tool. You don’t separate it. It’s a tool for the spirit.
One of the ego’s favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.
A strong egoism is a protection.
In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
Where id was, there ego shall be.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won’t. It prefers to be unnamed.
Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser – having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!
Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.
When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad I’m better.
If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
I would prefer not to.
I’m sure that I’m a winner. I’m sure that I win more than I lose.
We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend.
Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.
When I say or do something I do it, I don’t give a damn what you think, I’m doing this for me...
I am the best in the world at what I do.
Don’t be a hero. Don’t have an ego.