We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. — Thomas Merton 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
Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived… — Lorenz Oken Copy Share Image
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness -… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. — Lucy Grealy 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
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Teddy was feeling as miserable and impotently angry as any male creature does when two women are quarreling about him in his… — L.M. Montgomery 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
To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“Undesirable things that man can alter (e.g., his weight), he alters. Those that he cannot (e.g., his height), he calls the will… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
“A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the point of our self-consciousness. If… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
