“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
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“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
Quoted on the BBC-TV show "Who Said That?," http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9e47e00dd95247bf85472a4801cad3af January 14, 1958 http://books.google.com/books?id=4cl5c4T9LWkC&q=%22No+other+man-made+device+since+the+shields+and+lances+of+the+ancient+knights+fulfills+a+man's+ego+like+an+automobile%22&pg=PA122#v=onepage
“I like the moment when I break a man's ego”
“Do not kill your ego and do not let your ego to kill you. Control your ego and rule over it.”
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
“I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.”
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 109
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“A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”