Self-Conscious Quotes

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

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 things. You simply must do things.