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"Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing."
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"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."
"The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that 'I died'. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle."
"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."
"Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?"
"Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief."
"In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance."
"The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries."
"Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'."
"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."
"What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that."
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"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."
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