İnsan benmerkezcil bir hayvandır.
- The human is an egocentric animal.
Bir egoist, beni değil de sadece kendisini düşünen birisidir.
- An egoist is someone who thinks only about himself, and not about me.
Steve got a much needed ego boost yesterday , when A beautiful girl came up to him and asked for his autograph.
In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.
When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego. Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
The empirical ego is an object in the world, and, insofar as it is experienced and known, it must be subject to worldly causality.
The absolute goal of all phenomenological inquiry is pure consciousness as it manifests itself in the transcendental ego, the source of all intentional acts.
You might get an ego boost if your boss tells you that you are doing a great job and wants to give you a promotion.