Other philosophers (Brown, Mr Herbert Spencer, Auguste Comte, with many others) believe that the ego and the non-ego denote two realities, each self-existent, and neither dependent on the other; that the Noumenon, or 'thing per se,' is in itself a different thing from the Phenomenon, and equally or more real, but that, though we know its existence, we have no means of knowing what it is.

Not only the external, but the internal also, not only flesh, but spirit, not only the thing, but the ego, not only the finite, the phenomenal, but also the true divine essence is an object of the senses.

In the same way in the realm of metaphysics it was held for a still longer period that the ego was a simple and consequently an indestructible entity.

The pure ego is not a fact, but an original doing, the act of being for self (Fürsichsein), and the (philosophical, oras seems to be the case according to some passageseven the common) consciousness of this doing an intellectual intuition; through this we become conscious of the deed-act which is ever (though unconsciously) performing.

The transcendental self-consciousness or pure ego which accompanies and connects all my representations, the subject of all judgments which I form, is, as the Analytic recognized, the presupposition of all knowing (pp.

In reality the ego is not the source of our representations, but the final result of their combination.

The ego is the junction of numberless series of representations, and is constantly changing its place; it dwells now in this representation, now in that.

The ego is pure activity, and all reality its product.

Equidem ego is sum, qui servitutem extremum omnium malorum esse arbitror: I am he (saith Boterus) that account servitude the extremity of misery.

Equidem ego is sum, qui servitutem extremum omnium malorum esse arbitror: I am he (saith Boterus) that account servitude the extremity of misery.

EGO and NON-EGO (i. e. I and Not-I, or Self and Not-Self), are terms used in philosophy to denote respectively the subjective and the objective in cognition, what is from self and what is from the external to self, what is merely individual and what is universal.

" EGOISTS, EGOISM, EGOTISM."The disciples of Descartes were egoists, the ego being the basis of their philosophy."

The categorical imperative, the absolute ego or knowledge is no longer God himself, but the first manifestation of God, though a necessary revelation of him.