And second, consider what thou dost when thou dost think thine "ego."

He carries his ego like a glass of water filled to the brim, and seems to say, "Take care, or it will spill."

" One can club a too assertive ego into insensibility.

We must not conceive the ego as something which must exist before it can put forth its activities.

Have I not drawn the intense ego out of the clouds of semi-consciousness, and realised it?

According to this all that is good, exalted, and valuable in the world is divine in its nature; the human reason is of the same essence as the divine reason (there can be nothing higher than reason); the Godhead is the absolute ego of Fichte, which employs the empirical egos as organs, which thinks and wills in individuals, in so far as they think the truth and will the good, but at the same time as universal subject goes beyond them.

Wouldn't it be cruel of youafter letting me be what I amafter letting me know what I can beafter giving me an ego, an individuality, and making me a success in lifeto send me back to Paris to be a mere nonentity?

And aggressively, menacingly, addressing his own ego as though it were a henchman cringing terror-stricken in front of him, he muttered: "You imbecile!...

I thought I might be contented with such a view of these prodigies as might quickly consign them to the limbo of men's machinations; yet somehow or otherperhaps the Burgundy bottle, if it could have spoken, like that of Asmodeus, might have helped the solutionI got dreamy, and of course foolish, raising objections against my own conclusions, and instituting an alter ego to argue against myself for Graeme's theory.

Then I walked to my favorite bar to nurse my bruised ego.

Who but a romantic lover would obliterate his selfish ego in sympathetic devotion to another, trying to feel her feelings, forgetting his own?

By the inner sense we perceive our ego as it really is, not merely as it appears to us; the only object whose per se we immediately know is our own soul; in self-consciousness being and representation are one.

It is good and healthy, it makes for rest and strength, to plunge the bare, stiff, cold ego into the collective mind, as into a bath of confidence and fraternal gifts.

Such "provocation" would certainly rouse the military ego to a revenge ten thousand-fold greater than that taken at Zabern.

From the standpoint of the theoretical ego this problem, "Whence the original non-ego or opposition (Anstoss), which impels the ego back upon itself?" cannot be solved, since it is only through the opposition that it itself arises.