People talk about egos as if it were objects.

The ego is not master in its own house.

If we can see that the ego is purely fictitious — that it is merely an image of ourselves coupled with a sensation of muscular strain occasioned by trying to make this image an effective agent to control emotion and direct the nervous operations of our organism — then it becomes clear that what we have called ourselves isn’t able to do anything at all.

That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

humans wrestled endlessly with their own overpowering egos. Some tried suppressing selfness, seeking detachment. Others subsumed personal ambition in favor of a greater whole — family, religion, or a leader. Later they passed through a phase in which individualism was extolled as the highest virtue, teaching their young to inflate the ego beyond all natural limits or restraint.

It is far more common for people to allow ego to stand in the way of learning.

You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

"It is a curious psychological fact that the man who seems to be "egotistic" is not suffering from too much ego, but from too little. When the ego is strong and well developed, there is no nagging need to impress others — by money, by rudeness, or by any other show of false strength."

Ego is a powerful enemy when it comes to better understanding reality.

Most people confuse “self-knowledge” with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities.

the greatest illusion of the abstract ego is that it can do anything to bring about radical improvement either in itself or in the world.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

Our egos don’t like to take blame.