“Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.” PersonsFactsGreaterCrazyEgoNormalMadAveragePsychologicalPsychoticNormalityNormalcy Author:Sigmund Freud
“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.” HumansLyingEmotionGreaterViolencePlanetsCitizensEgoNormalRootsCriminalsInsaneInsanityCollectivesRespectableIdentificationDerangedThoughts And Emotions Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.” KnowsMeanBigsHugeEgoNormal Author:Kim Deal
“I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.” JobsGuyCuttingFieldsEmotionalEgoNormalAthleteExpertiseSusceptibleNegotiating Author:Georges St-Pierre
“Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole.” PeopleMenWholeWould BeTogetherCommonCasesGroupsStageFieldsHard WorkCircumstancesMembersEgoBehaviorNormalLateBehaveUnnaturalAbnormal Author:Max Wertheimer
“As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.” PeopleLongBigsEgoNormalMindfulnessRemainsSizeGrantedConcentrationUsual Author:Ayya Khema
“Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations than those moments when he must push aside all the familiar defenses of ego and vanity, and accept reality by staring, with the fear that is normal to a man in combat, into the face of Death.” MenMomentsRealityFacesAcceptingEgoNormalDefenseFamiliarVanityLimitationStaringAviationCombatCapability Book:Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace Source: Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace
“True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.” WayKindSelfRealitySocialDivineEgoNormalOne WayServantSanityEstablishmentRebirthDissolution Author:R. D. Laing