I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“ One of the most extraordinary things about about dogs is their total lack of self-consciousness. A dog never questions its own… — E.M. Crane Copy Share Image
“Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his… — Dale Breckenridge Carnegie Copy Share Image
I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything… — Daniel Odier 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 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
“Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may… — Anonymous 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
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
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification.… — Susan Sontag 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
“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
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
“Most people in the world have no soul-consciousness or self-consciousness. They only have societal consciousness. They have no time to think uniquely.… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing.… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with… — Cate Blanchett 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
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
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
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs… — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes.… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
“I don't want to hide. I don't want to be alone. I don't want to wander off into the desert in shame… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image