Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.