“Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.”

— Martin Buber , book I and Thou

I and Thou (1923)

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German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878–1965

George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 4, Is the Market Really A Crowd?, p. 49

“All liars… lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”

Aminatta Forna book The Memory of Love

Source: The Memory of Love

“The Satanist believes in complete gratification of his ego. Satanism, in fact, is the only religion which advocates the intensification or encouragement of the ego. Only if a person's own ego is sufficiently fulfilled, can he afford to be kind and complimentary to others, without robbing himself of his self-respect. We generally think of a braggart as a person with a large ego; in reality, his bragging results from a need to satisfy his impoverished ego.”

Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible (1969)

“Ego=1/Knowledge
" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego”

Hamza Yusuf (1958) American Islamic scholar

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/158902.Hamza_Yusuf

“The fact is, you get great art only from mutilated egos. Only mutilated egos are obsessive enough.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Playboy interview (May 1995)
Context: The fact is, you get great art only from mutilated egos. Only mutilated egos are obsessive enough. When I entered graduate school in 1968, 1 thought women were going to have all these enormous achievements, that they would redo everything. Then I saw every one of my female friends — these great minds who were going to transform the world — get married, move because their husbands moved and have babies. I screamed at them: What are you doing? Finish your great book! But they all read me the riot act. They said, "Camille, we are not you." They said, "We want life. We want love. We want happiness. We are not happy — like you are — just living off ideas." I am weird.