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Excerpt from Personality: With Special Reference to Superpersonalities and the Interpersonal Character of Ideas
Man associates all the motives of actions which are expressive of his own character with the idea of his self and speaks of himself as I and me.
He says, This concerns me, I do this, I will this, I love this, I hate that and this little pronoun I, called by philosophers with the Latin name ego, becomes the center round which cluster all these notions of our own yearnings and intentions, likes and dislikes, preferences and aversions, hopes and aspirations. In itself the word I is as empty as are all abstract terms, but how replete it is to each of us, containing all that constitutes the very core of our souls'
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