It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take. — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“I feel myself. But it's only the eye with a lash in it, the swollen finger, the infected tooth that feels itself,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The misfortune of solitary and timid people - who are timid from self-consciousness - is just that, though they have eyes and… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model,… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Self-consciousness, however, does hinder the experience of the present. It is the one instrument that unplugs all the rest. So long as… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Csíkszentmihályi, a very brilliant psychologist, believed that what he called Flow was a state of complete absorption which produced the highest level… — Tania Kindersley Copy Share Image
“Blind thinking… could make me pretend I was being true to myself when really I was only being true to an infantile… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging… — Osho Copy Share Image
“There is no way you can share your inner self because you are an object of contempt to yourself. When you are… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
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