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your judgment, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change...

Giving an Account of Oneself, Butler develops an ethics based on the opacity of the subject to itself; in other words, the limits of self-knowledge. Primarily...

variant of Alvin Toffler’s 1970s work, Future Shock, which suggested consequences of “too much change in too short a period of time.” According to Janet...

for each limb in order to coordinate. Thus, Norretranders postulates that when athletes report that they had too much time to think about their skills and...

relating to dreams, the dissatisfaction with oneself, and language as well. This section, named in honor of his friend Paul Rée's On the Origin of Moral...

expressions are in common use. Terms such as playing with yourself, pleasuring oneself and slang such as wanking, jerking off, jacking off, fapping and frigging...

prevents the realisation of one's potential Library anxiety Mindset Poseur Self-handicapping Setting up to fail § Setting oneself up to fail – a psychological...

always want to be the thing I feel kinship with... To feel everything in every way, To hold all opinions, To be sincere contradicting oneself every minute...

with oneself Overconfidence effect – Personal cognitive bias Pygmalion effect – Phenomenon in psychology Self-deception – Practice of feigning to be what...

"If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.": 33  — Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (21 January 1932) "To my friends / My work is done /...

to hope nothing at all. Love hopes all things—yet is never put to shame. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate...

retrospective, Do We Think Too Much? I Don't Think We Can Ever Stop: Lonnie Holley, A Twenty-Five Year Survey, was organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art and traveled...

resignation, of collecting oneself, of choice the individual is allowed to salute the absolute τέλος—but then, then comes the mediation. So, too, a dog can...

in the sense of knowing the extent of one's abilities, knowing one's place in the social scale, or knowing oneself to be mortal. In the 4th century BC,...

Humility is not to think lowly of oneself, but to appreciate the self one has received. In recognition of the mysteries and complexities of life, one becomes...

different perception of oneself relative to others. The following are forms of egocentric bias: Bias blind spot, the tendency to see oneself as less biased...

normal. This can be caused by an overdose of insulin (too much or wrong type) relative to the amount and type of food and/or exercise. Hypotension Low blood...

of 13 episodes were reduced to one of seventeen due to ITC chief Lew Grade deciding that the actor/producer was taking too long and spending too much...

distinguish oneself through "great words and great deeds." Property requirements for citizenship reflected the understanding that unless one was able to take...

act of setting oneself on fire. It is mostly done for political or religious reasons, often as a form of protest or in acts of martyrdom. Due to its disturbing...