"There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit……" — Max Eastman
"There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure."
More Conscious Quotes
- I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of… — Mikhail Bakunin
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all… — James A. Baldwin
- I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super… — Kristen Bell
- Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts… — Saul Bellow
- Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. — Theodor Adorno
- I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone… — Sara Blakely
- Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to… — Cate Blanchett
- Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and… — H. P. Blavatsky
- It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate… — H. P. Blavatsky
- I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many… — Alain de Botton
- I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when… — Anthony Bourdain
- Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do… — Ray Bradbury