Bruno Bauer Quotes

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can see everything that you have done wrong. They may or may not agree, but it is more of a personal thing for me. It is that I am looking at it because you are self conscious and suddenly there is someone in the room that is seeing it for the first time.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. The core is the core is the core. There is always the core, that can’t be articulated. Only caricatured.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.