Quotes About Subjective

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

Goldstein's central thesis is that anxiety is the subjective experience of the organism in a catastrophic condition . An organism is thrown into a catastrophic condition when it cannot cope with the demands of its environment and, therefore, feels a threat to its existence or to values it holds essential for its existence.

Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with threats is not objective but subjective - I.e., is due not to objective weakness but to inner psychological patterns and conflicts which prevent the individual from using his powers.

the reaction is disproportionate to the objective danger because some intrapsychic conflict is involved. Thus the reaction is never disproportionate to the subjective threat.

It made me think of how thin the border was between attractive and not, and yet, if it was there, you didn't want to cross it.

If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, value is in the mind of the consumer.

Success is subjective, so define it for yourself. Don't allow your life efforts to be dictated and judged according to other people's standards.

Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare.

Una vez aprendió, tal vez de su esposa Stefa, que el tiempo es algo subjetivo, una especie de intensa emoción. Y por eso mostraba un amargo desprecio por el tiempo.

There is a curious contradiction between those who complain that we have too many novels obsessed with the incapacity to achieve relationships and those who constantly upbraid the writers who deal exclusively with personal relationship. Men write about alienation and women about relationships. Feminine writing is often attacked as small, subjective, personal. The impotence to relate to another is the impotence to love others, and from this impotence to crime is a natural step.

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.

there is no impediment to our studying subjective (i.e., first-person) facts "objectively.

New Age thinkers usually enter the ditch on the other side of the road: They idealize altered states of consciousness and draw specious connections between subjective experience and the spookier theories at the frontiers of physics.

In subjective terms, the search for the self seems to entail a paradox:we are, after all, looking for the very thing that is doing the looking. Thousands of years of human experience suggests, however, that the paradox here is only apparent: it is not merely that the component of our experience that we call I cannot be found; it is that it actually disappears when looked for in a rigorous way.

passion for discerning what is subjectively real in every moment.

Quality is not an independent force in the universe; it depends on what you choose as your frame of reference.

Quality is not an independent force in the universe; it depends on what you choose as your frame of reference. When

La novela es una epopeya subjetiva en la que el autor pide permiso para tratar el universo a su manera; el único problema consiste en saber si tiene o no una manera; el resto viene por añadidura.

Trust and Advice are personal.

Quality of life": as if we knew it, and could measure it. I wanted to know what it was: the quality of life.

Do you think love flourishes at Stourwater?' 'I don't know,' said Moreland. 'Love means such different things to different people.

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

We have shown that the substance and object of religion is altogether human; we have shown that divine wisdom is human wisdom; that the secret of theology is anthropology; that the absolute mind is the so-called finite subjective mind.

The expression of personality in art had been sought after and appreciated long before anyone had realized that art was based no longer on an objective What but on a subjective How. Long after it had become a self-confession, people still continued to talk about the objective truth in art, although it was precisely the self-expressionism in art which enabled it to win through to general recognition.